Squashed Kant: Glossary and Maxims


	Squashed Kant: Glossary and Maxims

ophelia_in_red

2-13-2008 5:41 PM

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ophelia_in_red says:

A neat summary of Kant's terminology and his moral maxims.

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Maxim:</B> A subjective principle of action
<B>Kingdom of ends: </B>The union of different rational beings in
a system by common laws.
<B><I>A Priori </I></B><B>Knowledge: </B>That knowledge which is
inate and necessary, needing no reference to things outside.
<B>Analytic Propositions:</B> Statements which prove themselves
<B>Synthetic Propositions:</B> Statements which are proved by
things outside themselves.
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KANT'S MORAL MAXIMS
The categorical imperative:</B> <I>Act only on that maxim whereby
thou canst at the same time will that it should become a
universal law.</I>
<B>The imperative of duty:</B> <I>Act as if the maxim of thy
action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature.
</I><B>The practical imperative: </B><I>So act as to treat
humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in
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