What are the principles for acting morally, according to Kant?
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Kant says: You can’t say something is right just because it gets you what you want. You have to think of a way to describe a basic rule for yourself. And it has to be the sort of thing that if everyone did it, it would be better for everyone.
Kant’s whole message was that everyone should do what kant was doing in that he set up his explanation of his thinking with a process. It’s kinda meta. As in, in teaching others how to think about teaching each other, he was following his idea about making a basic rule. His basic rule was to help other people realize that they need to think their own basic rules.
Rules that take into account things like “how much worth do I give to others?” And “how to tell if you are being good for a reward instead of being good because you value those around you.”
But he also uses the word duty, maybe too much. Because calling on people to recognize that he says they have a duty to stick to his ideas of what people owe one another is really more like wishing that everyone could be better than they are, because no one is ever really as considerate as he wishes they would be.
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