The categorical imperative and the Nazi at the door

[sylvar]

Jodi was explaining to me this evening that ethicists find fault in Kant's categorical imperative, the first formulation of which is (if I'm paraphrasing correctly) that you should act in a way in which you can will everyone else to act. The problem, they say, is that Kant forbids lying because nobody really wants to live in a world in which

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[h_postmortemus]

Yes, your being reasonable.

Philosophy, as I've generally seen it, is rarely reasonable or sensible and usually about mental masturbation.

Er, no offense. :)