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Originally Posted by roachboy
there's an argument i read somewhere that if there really were universal principles there'd be no need for an ethics because everyone would recognize the validity of the prohibition and that would be that. because the principle would be, you know, universal. because that's what universal means, yes?
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The one thing that's difficult to remove from the equation is the relativism of individual humans ultimately being their own moral agents. As Kant suggests in his categorical imperative, "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law."
There is the act, then there is the will, but the "universal law" part is merely a should.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 05-01-2011 at 12:54 PM..
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