I recall writing an essay and attending a lecture on Kant’s Categorical Imperative, an attempt to give a non-religious framework to ethical decision making. I knew at once it was unworkable but I did think that he understood what may be obvious but needs elucidating: that all ethical conversations begin and end inside one’s head….
Tag: Immanuel Kant
Where is Objectivity?
We are told that very often people fall in love with people who broadly ‘look like them’. It is an interesting and rather unsettling fact. The same social strata makes sense as you only ever marry people you have met (even in that bizarre and stupid TV show). It is also said we are tending…