Kant & Categorical Imperatives: Crash Course Philosophy #35 - YouTube
Commands you must follow, regardless of your desires.
moral obligations are derived from pure reason (consequentialism).
We’re not mere objects that exist to be used by others.
We’re our own ends.
We’re rational and autonomous (except disability etc).
We have the ability to set our own goals, and work towards them.
Unlike other things in the world, we’re self-governed (except disability etc).
We’re able to set our own ends, to make our own free decisions based on our own rational wills. (Neurological Illnesses).
This imbues us with an absolute moral worth (sentience), which means that we shouldn’t be manipulated or manipulate others autonomous (sentience) agents for our own benefit.
Formulations
Universalizability principle
Act only according to that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.
(something must always be done in similar situations)
Can determine threshold for said contradictions.
Contradictions = outliers, like disability etc.
Formula of humanity
act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a mere means.
(Antithesis Hyper-Sanity/Hyper-Framework/Hyper-Modalities/Tri-Modalities/Red/Hyper-Malevolence/Machiavelli/Machiavelli Ethics )