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Need help with my writing homework on Significance of Kantian Imperatives to Assess Moral Acts. Write a 3000 word paper answering;

Need help with my writing homework on Significance of Kantian Imperatives to Assess Moral Acts. Write a 3000 word paper answering; &nbsp.The paper also attempts to see specific instances that could take place in the contemporary time periods in order to make an evaluation of the same in the light of the Kantian perspectives of morality.

The main area of emphasis in this paper is categorical imperative. This paper is divided into four sections including this introduction. In the second section, a discussion of hypothetical and categorical imperatives is undertaken in the light of some critical perspectives available. The third section discusses the formula of universal law under the maxim “Act only according to the maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”. The fourth section undertakes a discussion of a specific instance and the fifth section includes my concluding remarks.

. . . all imperatives command either hypothetically or categorically. The former presents the practical necessity of a possible action as a means to achieving something else which one desires (or which one may possibly desire). The categorical imperative would be one which presented an action as of itself objectively necessary, without regard to any other end. (Kant 1989).

According to this definition, the ends of an action determines whether the imperative is hypothetical or categorical. Thus a hypothetical imperative implies an instrumental relation between the means and the ends as is reflected in saying that ‘study well if you want to&nbsp.pass the examination’. Here the action that is, study, is related with the goal of passing in the examination in a conditional sense.

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