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Jiang's classroom name for the highest moral law: act as if your will reflects the universe, act by free choice, and never destroy one soul for a larger payoff.
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categorical imperative
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Glossary
Kant's highest moral law as Jiang presents it: universality, free will, and humans as ends in themselves.
Glossary
Kant's highest moral law, used by Jiang as a bridge for explaining Asha through universality, free will, and humans as ends.
definition
Jiang introduces the categorical imperative as the highest moral law and the rule of life that brings a person closer to God within Dante's cosmology.
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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.
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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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"...going on, I need to explain to you Immanuel Kant's Categorial Imperative. Okay. The Categorial Imperative by Immanuel Kant. And there are three principles..."
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"need to cut out one person that goes against the category imperative i know it sounds stupid wait a minute i kill one person..."
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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..."
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"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..."
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"...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..."
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"...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..."
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"...concept of Asha. So there are three principles of the Catechol Imperative. The first, the most important, is the law of universality. And what..."
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"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..."
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"Okay? Now last is the idea of humans as the end. Now you have heard, maybe heard the phrase, the means to an end,..."
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"...your grand strategy, then you have a more obligation, a more imperative to help the Iranians in their time of need. And in fact,..."
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"...the universal principle, okay? The universal principle is an integral, hierarchical imperative, okay? Which for him is the highest moral law. So as human..."
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"...the ultimate end okay so these these together um the category imperative is what gives us the theory of the general will so even..."
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