Kant's Categorical Imparative

[ARon]

So i'm writing a paper on him and his ideas but to me it seems like this guy was just an idiot. Yeah his ideas sound nice but they simply just will not work. It is too much of a Utopian idea, it just will not work. How can he not see this just through his own life. It almost human nature to refute his ideas, survival of the fittest and so forth. Just weird. Am I seeing this wrong or what, anyone like to comment.

 

[Jokerman]

Well...he was the founder of German Idealism. He was just trying to present to us what he thinks is the logically consistent way to act morally, not what he expects most people to be able to do. He was trying to render the whole world mental, to take an idealistic view of the world. To make the world over in terms of human understanding.

His ideas are very theoretical and technical, but in the end he's just talking about how we ought to act and trying to show us why.

 

[Khaled]

So i'm writing a paper on him and his ideas but to me it seems like this guy was just an idiot. Yeah his ideas sound nice but they simply just will not work. It is too much of a Utopian idea, it just will not work. How can he not see this just through his own life. It almost human nature to refute his ideas, survival of the fittest and so forth. Just weird. Am I seeing this wrong or what, anyone like to comment.

i think Kant's ideas are the most complex and interesting. i don't see the utopian or the survival of the fittest part (not sure what you're referring to).

but as far as sounding like an idiot, Kant is acually considered as the most intelligent philosopher ever


Kant's categorical imperative provides a clear cut test to judge whether an action is moral or not, ie right or wrong. He was able to find a solution to many questions on some issues where decisions about what would be the right thing to do were hard to make. It's more about telling us how to act, it's about setting clear standards about right or wrong, nothing subjective or relative, biuut categoric.

 

[makaveli_411]

Like Jokerman said Kant was an idealist and is mostly from there that the Liberal theory derives from; if you ever heard of the Kantian Triangle. BTW if you consider him an idiot you're just saying that Plato fits in the same category. Therefore it's all about how humans ought to live in order to have perpetual peace (also the name of one of his books) and a more prosperous world without the need for war.

Peace

 

[ARon]

I think my reasoning is that his ideas dont work in our world. They sound nice, they would work, but we are human and that is why. Why I referred to it being too Utopian and such. but wahtever I got an A on the paper.

 

[S O F I]

What are some of his ideas?