![]() ![]() To use the Formula of Universal Law as a test of the moral status of acts is often held to commit one to rigourism – to the view that all moral principles must be very general. It is certainly true that views both grotesque and bizarre have been attributed to Kant in the course of various discussions of the application of the Categorical Imperative. ![]() The traditional…view of…the categorical imperative…as offering a precise standard or criterion against which the moral value of proposed actions might be tested…is unrewarding, for the strain in Kant’s thought which is emphasized by these writers and taken as representative of his basic position leads to a number of bizarre conclusions…which, perforce, have been universally rejected by commentators. ![]()
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