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Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics - Page 731
by Alexander Bain - 1868 - 850 pages
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Moral science

Alexander Bain - 1869 - 364 pages
...Form of Universality that enables rule to be Law (of Nature), according to principle first (in its double form) ; subjectively, it is End, the subject...Hypothetical : Interest is seen to be quite incompatible with Duty, if Duty is Volition of this kind. A will merely subject to laws can be bound to them by interest...
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Moral Science: A Compendium of Ethics

Alexander Bain - 1869 - 364 pages
...Form of Universality that enables rule to be Law (of Nature), according to principle first (in its double form) ; subjectively, it is End, the subject...new idea — of the Will of every rational being as univeveally legislative — is what, in the implication of the Categorical Imperative, specifically...
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Moral Science: A Compendium of Ethics

Alexander Bain - 1869 - 348 pages
...principle of the Will, as supreme condition of its agreement with universal practical Reason — tlie idea of the Will of every rational being as a Will...Hypothetical : Interest is seen to be quite incompatible with Duty, if Duty is Volition of this kind. A will merely subject to laws can be bound to them by interest...
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Moral Science: A Compendium of Ethics

Alexander Bain - 1869 - 350 pages
...the Will, as supreme condition of its agreement with universal practical Reason — the idea of Hie Will of every rational being as a Will that legislates...Hypothetical : Interest is seen to be quite incompatible with Duty, if Duty is Volition of this kind. A will merely subject to laws can be bound to them by interest...
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The Philosophy of Kant: As Contained in Extracts from His Own Writings

Immanuel Kant - 1888 - 380 pages
...of the will, which is the supreme condition of its harmony with universal practical reason, namely, the idea of the will of every rational being as a will which lays down universal laws of action. 280 This formula implies, that a will which is itself the...
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The Philosophy of Kant Explained

John Watson - 1908 - 536 pages
...in himself, or is the subject of all ends. Hence follows a third formula : " Act in conformity with the idea of the will of every rational being as a will ~whicn~Taysr'6T6Wri universal laws of action."" 247 a A will of this kind cannot obey the law which...
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The Philosophy of Kant as Contained in Extracts from His Own Writings

Immanuel Kant - 1908 - 398 pages
...of the will, which is the supreme condition of its harmony with universal practical reason, namely, the idea of the will of every rational being as a will which lays down universal laws of action. 280 This formula implies, that a will which is itself the...
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The Classical Moralists: Selections Illustrating Ethics from Socrates to ...

Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 pages
...of the will, which is the supreme condition of its harmony with universal practical reason, namely, the idea of the will of every rational being as a will which lays down universal laws of action. This formula implies, that a will which is itself the supreme...
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Kant on the Moral Life: An Exposition of Kants's "Grundlegung,"

John Waugh Scott - 1924 - 200 pages
...follows, as our third practical principle of the will, and as the ultimate condition of its harmony with universal practical reason, the idea of the will of every rational being as a universally legislative will. Paragraph 55. — Hence what we are doing, in doing our recognised duty...
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Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective: Ethics and theology

James M. Gustafson - 1992 - 338 pages
...way "of presenting the principle of morality" is "the principle of autonomy of the will," ie , "in the idea of the will of every rational being as a will giving universal law."42 "Because of the idea of universal lawgiving, it is based on no interest, and...
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