Class Discussion Sheet on the Willing a Universal Law Form of the Categorical Imperative:
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. (Kant in Solomon, Martin, and Vaught 290 )."
Example 2. Page 291 in Solomon, Martin, and Vaught. See also Pages 276-77
Why is it wrong to make a lying promise according to the willing a universal law form of the categorical imperative?
What does Kant mean when he says that if making a lying promise was universalized the maxim "must necessarily be self-contradictory" and make promising itself "impossible" as well as any end in view ? (291)
Example 4. Page 292 in Solomon, Martin, and Vaught
Why can a prosperous person not helping those in wretchedness be universalized, but not willed?
Perfect and Imperfect Duties - Page 294 in Solomon, Martin, and Vaught
What is the difference between a narrow [perfect] (irremissible) duty and a broad [imperfect] (meritorious) duty?
What does Kant mean when he says: "For a will which resolved in this way would contradict itself, inasmuch as cases might often arise in which one would have need of the love and sympathy of others and in which he would deprive himself, by such a law of nature springing from his own will, of all hope of the aid he wants for himself (Kant in Solomon and Martin, 292 )."