Assertion: categorical imperative's action | /r/HasProperty | permissible
Facets:
value: morally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Many actions which are permissible but not required by duty are neutral in this way.
text: The first formulation states that an action is only morally permissible if every agent could adopt the same principle of action without generating one of two kinds of contradiction.
text: An action is permissible if (1) its maxim can be universalized (if everyone can consistently act on the maxim in similar situations) and (2) you would be willing to let that happen.
text: This is almost self explanatory, for what Kant argues that an action is morally permissible only if that action can become a law that everybody must follow.
text: To decide which actions are morally permissible Kant specifically states the one must “act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law” (4:421).
text: His principle of universalizability requires that, for an action to be permissible, it must be possible to apply it to all people without a contradiction occurring.
text: The CI formula is a four step process that will determine if your actions will then be morally permissible.
text: If the maxim passes all four steps, then your actions would be morally permissible.
text: If you are not treating them merely as a means to an end, then the action is morally permissible.
text: All of this boils down to a test of your motives — if your motive for action (maxim) passes the categorical imperative, your action is permissible.