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Absolute Or Obsolete: Issues With The Categorical Imperative Theory




Ishaan Deepak Joshi, MIT-WPU, Faculty of Law

ABSTRACT

The German Philosopher Immanuel Kant identifies categorical imperatives to be mandates or ethical rules that everyone, irrespective of desires or exceptions, must obey. As ethical standards, they're obligatory for all. The notion of universalizability is one of the categorical imperatives developed by Kant, stating that a person ought to "act solely in keeping with the principle by which one can simultaneously ensure it to develop as a universal principle." The following essentially implies that when you perform a task, everybody else ought to be enabled to perform it as well. A genuinely virtuous act, according to Kantian thought, constitutes a behaviour that may evolve into an inherent norm; a purely gratifying deed is by definition not adaptable and therefore absent in the cosmos of Kantian Ideology. This tenet has moral worth, and researchers constantly compare the activities suggested in studies & the potential hazards they represent to people participating to the norms established by prior research. Furthermore, the Institutional Review Board is committed to holding its scholars to equivalent standards, resulting in the development of organizational and national guidelines. Nevertheless, the concept of universalizability provides does not necessarily apply in all circumstances.

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Indian Journal of Law and Legal Research

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ISSN: 2582-8878

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