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Originally Posted by chris2008
Greater minds than mine have already provided orientation:
Immanuel Kant: The first formulation (Formula of Universal Law) says: "Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature."
The second formulation (Formula of Humanity) says: "Act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means."
The third formulation (Formula of Autonomy) is a synthesis of the first two. It says that we should so act that we may think of ourselves as legislating universal laws through our maxims, in a possible Kingdom of Ends.
Good enough for me...
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By Kant's Formula's a person who is a child molester or murderer but seems themselves in their own mine as being right or helping mankind is acting morally respectable?
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"Those who think it cannot be done, need to stay out of the way of those of us doing it."
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