Circumstances Quote by Allen W. Wood

Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make…

— Allen W. Wood

“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

“...Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being.”

— Immanuel Kant

“in the field of ethics, of moral knowledge, it was approached by Kant with his principle of autonomy. This principle expresses his realization that…

— Karl Popper

Few maxims are true in every respect.

— Anonymous

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly…

— Joseph Joubert

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are…

— Joseph Joubert

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

— Immanuel Kant

“about runaway trolleys!” This is an example of what Kant would call heteronomous determination —doing something for the sake of something else, for the…

— Michael J. Sandel

When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual…

— Alison Assiter

Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see that Kantian…

— Allen W. Wood

I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

— Immanuel Kant