/lit/ - Literature

>>11006760
>Can someone explain the significance of Kant?
>the significance of Kant?
>of Kant?
lmao.

In regards to the categorical imperative the quotes in
>>11006742
are from him.

Here have Kant's principle of duty:
>I ought never to act in such a way that I could not also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
>E.g. When in need of money I’ll lie to a lender in order to get what I need.
>How would it be if my maxim were a universal law? Then I see at once that it could never hold as a universal law of nature but would necessarily contradict itself. For suppose it to be a universal law that everyone, when he thinks himself in difficulty, should be able to promise whatever he pleases with the purpose of not keeping it, the promise itself would become impossible as well as the end one might have in view of it, since no one would consider that anything was promised to him and would ridicule all such statements as vain pretences.

>>9663474
>as a person who has ethical and political commitments but doesn't actually believe in it or agree with him/herself
<ha ha