Kant's highest moral law as Jiang presents it: universality, free will, and humans as ends in themselves.
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categorical imperative
Kant's highest moral law as Jiang presents it: universality, free will, and humans as ends in themselves.
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Kant's highest moral law, used by Jiang as a bridge for explaining Asha through universality, free will, and humans as ends.
Jiang uses Kant's categorical imperative to give the general will an ethical basis: universality, free will, and treating human life as an end in itself.
Jiang maps Asha onto three Kantian principles: universality, free will, and treating each human as an end rather than a means.
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"...what we should all try to achieve is something called the categorical imperative okay imperative is the highest moral law right it's really God's..."
"imagine that whatever you do will be replicated by everyone else immediately okay that's the idea of universality second is the idea of free..."
"...the human life okay so that's the idea of the category imperative the ethical basis for the general will okay now in practical terms..."
"...I'm going to introduce to you another concept called the Catechol Imperative. So Immanuel Kant. So we don't know when Zarathustra lived, but he..."
"...concept of Asha. So there are three principles of the Catechol Imperative. The first, the most important, is the law of universality. And what..."
"Or, do unto others as others would do unto you. But actually, no, it's a much higher concept. The higher concept is that, imagine..."
"Okay? Now last is the idea of humans as the end. Now you have heard, maybe heard the phrase, the means to an end,..."
"...your grand strategy, then you have a more obligation, a more imperative to help the Iranians in their time of need. And in fact,..."
"...the universal principle, okay? The universal principle is an integral, hierarchical imperative, okay? Which for him is the highest moral law. So as human..."
"...the ultimate end okay so these these together um the category imperative is what gives us the theory of the general will so even..."
"...It's also a Muslim country so you have this religious duty imperative to have as many children as possible. Okay. But the problem with..."
"...mind of God therefore education literacy learning it is the divine imperative and that's why they established Harvard okay Harvard was a school designed..."
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