Assertion: maxim | /r/HasProperty | universal
Facets:
value: on the contrary
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Maxims are universal and testify to the commonality of human existence.
text: One might take this as expressing Kant’s intention to derive thereby the universal law formula from the Humanity Formula: If something is absolutely valuable, then we must act only on maxims that can be universal laws.
text: Kant would say that an agent who has the maxim “I will kill people in the circumstance that no one is watching for the purpose of pleasure” could not will their maxim to be a universal law.
text: On the contrary the maxim "Nobody has to have an affair with someone who is already married to somebody else" can be universal and necessary because it meets no contradiction whatsoever and respects the function and meaning of marriage.
text: Thus, we must act only on maxims that can be universal laws.