"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end." — Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals #CategoricalImperative

I don't know how you can watch what happened to the United States and think about not voting.

#CategoricalImperative #USPol #Vote

Oi! What the dickens is this thread anyhow?

Well, I'm Knizer, and I started compiling interesting #boston events as a way to self-motivate exploring my beloved and vibrant #NewEngland and called it #bostonWeekend here, because why not share it with my neighbors? Its become my little #hyperlocal content-generating project to help me meet some neighbors (you're all lovely) and gives me something to talk about when I'm bragging about our lower-stress, no advertisement, social media lifestyle here on the #fediverse

No algorithm - you've got to post, boost, or like stuff, its the #CategoricalImperative of the fedi, that, hope, and some trans and/or furry server admins keep this place running.
Anyway, rock on, #Massachusetts and surrounds.
#BostonWeekend 14/x

“all things are delicately interconnected.” jenny holzer

painting 2020, acrylic on canvas 20x20cm for the annual show of @heikomullerart @feinkunstkrueger (opening in dec) i painted portraits of apes

#ape #hominoid #hominoidea #consumption #resilience #overconsumption #savetheplanetkillyourself #change #rethink #kategorischerimperativ #categoricalimperative #interconnectedness #painting #moki #mioke
ainting 2020, acrylic on canvas 20x20cm for the annual show of @heikomullerart @feinkunstkrueger (opening in dec) i painted portraits of apes

#ape #hominoid #hominoidea #consumption #resilience #overconsumption #savetheplanetkillyourself #change #rethink #kategorischerimperativ #categoricalimperative #interconnectedness #painting #moki #mioke

“all things are delicately interconnected.” jenny holzer
@danielpunkass And I still wonder why people so much care about what *other* people do in their bedrooms or try to keep others from living a life that suits how they just are. #categoricalimperative

Kant said:

In arriving at moral judgments one does better to ... follow the strict method and base one’s thinking on the universal formulation of the categorical imperative: Act in accordance with a maxim that can at the same time make itself a universal law.

He went on:

But if one wants to enable the moral law to have access to a mind, it is very useful to bring one and the same action under the ... concepts I have listed, and thus, so far as possible, to bring it nearer to intuition.

#goldenrule #rm3 #kant #categoricalimperative #categorytheory

It's a Universal Property

The main criticism #Kant had of the #GoldenRule is that it relies too heavily on subjective personal inclinations and desires.A #sadist following the Golden Rule could justify inflicting pain on others. The #CategoricalImperative aims to be an objective, universally binding principle based on reason alone, not contingent on individuals' wants.
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#Prawfddarllen y Cyfnod Clo wedi dod i’r amlwg o’r diwedd /

I #proofread ( past tense ! ) this in #lockdown, when #Kant’s #Categoricalimperative finally made some sense.