Immanuel Kant, Groundwork | How Categorical Imperatives Are Possible | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This Core Concept video focuses on Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, sec. 3 and examines Kant's discussion of how categorical imperatives are possible.

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[elladodd]

Thank you so much! really helped clear things up for a university assignment I have due.

[AlSmoothikins]

I love these Kant videos. This one was really well-organized and funny. Thank you.

[marcellolanza]

In regards to the psychopath, it seems to me that one necessarily doesn't need to feel that something is wrong to understand why it's wrong, and that if one is able to use reason to ones advantage then that individual very well can understand why his actions are wrong even though he may not feel that they are. Perhaps Kant's Categorical Imperative could show those individuals who lack empathy why their actions are illogical and contradictory, because if I remember correctly, those who lack empathy tend to be incredibly logical and perhaps showing the illogicality of their actions could produce a desire to re articulate their principles.

[CaptainJasa]

Can Kant thing in it self be reconciled with Nassim Taleb theory on the nature of uncertainty aka "The Black Swan".When reading Nassim it seems to me that he trying to get at the part of the unknown.As one of your early subscribers, I felt like I have come quite far in my own thinking, I recently just finished my second reading of Plato republic and I am about to go on my third go around of Beyond Good and Evil.

[nunobhabhacarvalho]

thank you professor sadler, have you an explanation why the study of kant ethichs is usually focused on the groundworks of morals and not on the critique of pratical reason? I imagine that it isn´t because the former it s easier than the latter, because according to that logic we would also study the prolegomna rather than the first critique, and it s not actually the case.