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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the central elements of Kant's categorical imperative and then compares them to the moral arguments in both African philosophy and Feminist theory. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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(1788), and The Metaphysics of Morals (1798) all provide support for his views of morality, moral traditions and how the consequences of an individuals actions inherent impact personal choice.
Both African philosophy and Feminist theory consider issues of morality and the social implications relative to what appears to be the central premise of the categorical imperative. But in
his writings, Kant rejects some of the traditional views on morality, and instead argues that actions should be deemed moral if they meet his "supreme principle of morality," which is
based on objectivity, the rational and free choice (IEP catimper.htm). Kant believed that the highest task that nature defines for mankind is that of establishing a "society in
which freedom under external laws would be combined to the greatest possible extent with irresistible force" and the result would be the establishment of the perfect civil constitution (Kant 45-46).
Mans complicity in the development of the central notion of a world order is defined not only by humanity, but by the development of a perfect moral condition, and
that more often than not, man is forced into conditions where he must "endure the hardest of evils under the guise of outward prosperity" (Kant 49).
Challenge, then, for Kant, would come from the inherent process that man experiences as he moves away from nature and into a societal state, based on the
fact that man experiences "restless reason, irresistibly driving him on to develop his innate capacities stands between him and that imagined seat of bliss" (Kant 226). Man in society
experiences both the tendency and desire to come together as a collective and the constant resistance that threatens to break up the same society. "Man has an inclination to
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