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Which of Kant’s formulations of the categorical imperative offers the most plausible account of what it is for an act to be right?
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Jonathan Sudaria Which of Kant's formulations of the categorical imperative offers the most plausible account of what it is for an act to be right? In "Groundworks of the Metaphysic of Morals" Immanuel Kant proposes that good will is the only thing which is good and that a person should "act only under that maxim which he would will to be universal" (273); Kant calls that test for morality the Categorical Imperative. Kant believes that the CI can be formulated in several different ways, a. The Formula of Universal Law b. The Formula of the End in Itself c. The Formula of the Kingdom of Ends Kant upheld scientific laws as the model rational principles. A characteristic of scientific laws is that they are universal, such as the law that when heated, gas will expand. Kant thought that moral laws or principles must have universality to be rational. Kant derives the categorical...
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