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Kant’s Categorical Imperative IRL

or Why Human Civilization Can’t Have Nice Things

Tomm Carr
4 min readFeb 8, 2024

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Briefly, Immanuel Kant developed a moral concept he called the Categorical Imperative. According to Kant, in order to act morally, one must act strictly out of a sense of duty, and the mandates of duty requires that the act result in no benefit whatsoever for the actor.

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Tomm Carr

A retired software engineer who hates retirement with a passion. My hobbies are writing, economics, philosophy and futurism.