(May 17, 2014 at 10:57 am)James2014 Wrote: Poor Kant, I think you are being a bit unfair to him.
Kant's categorical imperatives are true according to Kant regardless of their outcomes, that kind of is their whole point, so to dismiss them because of some bad oucome does not in itself invalidate them.
Poor Kant!?! Haha. The problem I have is that unless the CI are related to the well-being of humans, then WTF is their point?
(May 17, 2014 at 11:49 am)Chuck Wrote: If you loosen you criteria to embody the trivial, then every philosophical approach can be said to be on the right track in some way. You think kant is on the right track in what way?
Like I said, in the idea that it is for the betterment of all rational beings to believe that each and every human being is born with an equal endowment of natural rights, and that this should really guide our efforts to establish fairer (and I'd say happier) societies. There does seem to be a truth of some sort in that, even if it's ultimately unjustifiable in any scientific sense.
