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POPSCalvin and Hobbes: On the Categorical Imperative (Kant) Kant's term of morality is a term of reason-based duty as opposed to both arbitrary and heteronomy-based obedience. Moral acting is not sheer obeying any (specified) regulations, precepts, commands or instructions. The moral law as a pure practical law is given by reason a priori , and, "if the will is free" and "if there is a God", it dictates "what ought to be done": I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law. Act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a universal law of nature. Act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end in itself, never as means only. So act as if you were through your maxims a law-making member of a kingdom of ends. Reference: Kant's Ethical Theory
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POPSIsrael's Conscientious Objectors: The Categorical Imperative
Third, you corrupt the army. If all moral people leave the army, it will remain in the hands of the immoral ones. The checkpoints will be manned exclusively by Arab-haters, operations will be executed by sadists. But if the decent people remain in the army, they can influence its spirit, preventing by their very presence injustices and atrocities, or, at least, bringing them to light. I have always supported an individual's right to refuse. But I myself was not ready to call upon young people to follow this line. My position was that persons must decide for themselves where they will best serve the fight against the occupation--inside or outside the army. First of all, many soldiers have convinced me that it is almost impossible to withstand the pressure inside the army. The brainwashing is intense and unrelenting; those in the higher ranks are more and more like robots with blunted senses, the products of the occupation; not to mention the members of the religious academies conn
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POPSPhilosophy since the Enlightenment Philosophy can sometimes seem like like a subject that has little practical application, but in studying it the way we think is examined, dramatic differences, and similarities can be seen in the way beliefs can be held by people with apparently rational justification. These beliefs and opinions have a direct effect on the way the world is seen. 'Reality' may stay the same, but if the way it is seen changes, is it the same reality ?
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