| Immanuel Kant - Ethics - 1873 - 280 pages
...translates. With this reading, it is the conformity that presents the imperative as necessary.] namely this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle, then... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 324 pages
...prescribing these limits for all Hebrews, tacitly assert that life, property, good name, &c., must be respected in one as in another. In a form which...the Christian rule. The suggestion that every other mau must be imagined to act after a manner similar to the manner proposed, joined with the tacit implication... | |
| Immanuel Kant - Ethics - 1879 - 520 pages
...translates. With this reading, it is the conformity that presents the imperative as necessary.] namely this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle, then... | |
| Immanuel Kant - Ethics - 1879 - 534 pages
...conformity that presents the imperative as necessary.] N namely this : Act only on that maxim whereby than canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle, then... | |
| Henry Sidgwick - Ethics - 1884 - 224 pages
...translation). Here Kant first says " There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now, if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle we... | |
| Henry Sidgwick - Ethics - 1884 - 200 pages
...translation). Here Kant first says " There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this : Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Now, if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle we... | |
| Universalism - 1886 - 540 pages
...that must not be the motive. Kant holds that there is but one categorical imperative, namely this : " Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law."38 *• Types of Kthicnl Theory, Vol. IF. p. 85. 8'Scieuce of Kthics. By Leslie Stephens, p. 170.... | |
| John Matthias Wilson, Thomas Fowler - Ethics - 1887 - 428 pages
...be the consequences if acts of this kind were general. The so-called Categorical Imperative of Kant ('Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become law universal ') is merely an unqualified statement of this principle. The necessary qualifications... | |
| John Edward Maude - Ethics - 1887 - 238 pages
...else. It does not say what you ought ; for if it did, it would not be categorical. Kant's law is this: "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the...same time will that it should become a universal law ; " or, " Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature."... | |
| Thomas Fowler - Ethics - 1887 - 428 pages
...be the consequences if acts of this kind were general. The so-called Categorical Imperative of Kant ('Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become law universal') is merely an unqualified statement of this principle. The necessary qualifications... | |
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