The categorical imperative is far from silly, but Kant himself was aware that it had litle to do with real-world actions, as is pretty obvious in the Metaphysics of Morals.
--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > The Kantian Moral Imperative, quite aside from
> anything Marx, Freud, or
> > Sartre ever said or thought, is pretty silly. And
> even if it were true
> > it would have no relevance to the questions you
> pose -- because it is at
> > the highest level of theoretical abstraction --
> and there is no direct
> > link between such high-level abstractions and any
> particular decision or
> > act.
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