can you help me on answering these question.?
what is the categorical imperative of cant?
If you want the imperative in Kant’s wording, complete with his formulations that accompany it, you can simply look at the Wikipedia article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
To explain the imperative, you might want to think back to the time when your parents or guardians used to scold you by saying, “Could you imagine if everybody did that!?” The Categorical Imperative does the very same: It regards an action, strips it of its context, and then tells us to imagine that the action was considered of moral worth, such that everybody did it constantly. If the consequences aren’t favorable, then the action is deemed immoral by the imperative. Kant also argues that if the perpetuation of an action would cause its own decline, then it must be immoral. For example, Kant contends that lying is wrong because lying is contingent on trust, and if everybody lied, trust would break down. Therefore, we would become unable to lie.
You’ll notice that very few actions, if any, are moral according to this standard. Not only that, the Imperative alone cannot determine the morality of an action: We have to determine whether the consequences are favorable. Since moral standards are supposed to tell us which consequences are favorable (or whether they can be favorable), and this is Kant’s lone standard, his ethical system seems incomplete–why should we think it bad that an action can’t be replicated constantly? Kant never seems to explain this.
Lastly, in addition to Kant’s failure to explain why we ought to strip an action of its context in order to consider it, he never explains how much of the context we are permitted to disregard. In reference to his statements about killing, I must ask, “Although we may become unable to kill if everyone kills constantly, why would killing become an impossibility if everyone kills only in self-defense?” Why should we remove the “self-defense” stipulation?
I hope this helped, though you should probably gain an elementary understanding of philosophers’ works before asking such questions. Otherwise, it will all look like gibberish.
