Instrumental
Yes
Explicit notes
Joseph Green (1727 – 27 June 1786) was an English merchant who was the "best friend" of Immanuel Kant. Green provided a perspective on the outside world that was helpful for Kant. Kant and Green shared a deep appreciation of the ideas of David Hume and Jean-Jaques Rousseau. Kant also discussed his work with Green, including 1781 publication of "Critique of Pure Reason", a book seeking to determine the limits and scope of metaphysics. Kant explains that by a "critique of pure reason" he means a critique "of the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all knowledge after which it may strive independently of all experience" and that he aims to reach a decision about "the possibility or impossibility of metaphysics."
The categorical imperative is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Introduced in 1785's, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, it is a way of evaluating motivations for action. It is best known in its original formulation: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law."
AI generated?
No