Morality as categorical imperative
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2022-03
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Philosophical Papers Journal of Department of Philosophy
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Bhattacharyya, Anureema
Joardar, Koushik
Mukherjee, Anirban
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University of North Bengal
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Ramthing, N. (2022). Morality as categorical imperative. Philosophical Papers Journal of Department of Philosophy, XVIII, 91–99. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4627
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Ramthing, N.
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This article attempts to foreground morality as categorical imperative.
For Kant the categorical imperative is the fundamental principle of
morality grounded on the idea of autonomy. He argues that an exclusive
empirical philosophy can have nothing to say about morality, it can only
urge us to be guided by our emotions or at the best by an enlightened
self-love, at the very time when the abyss between unregulated impulse
or undiluted self-interest and moral principles has been so tragically
displace in practice. Kant believed that an action can only be morally
worthy if it is performed in accordance with the categorical imperative,
meaning that it is performed out of a sense of duty to the moral law. The
categorical imperative must be universally applicable to all autonomous
beings. And I agree with Kant that a principle which applies to all
autonomous beings must be categorical imperative based on universal
law. Morality, for Kant is fundamentally a matter of following the
categorical imperative and such is a matter of acting from duty and not
simply outwardly conforming to a rule because for Kant conformity to
the moral duty is the practical necessity of a possible action as
necessary of itself without reference to another end.
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XVIII
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0976-4496
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91 - 99