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Monday, December 27, 2010

Critique of Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant tried to use reason alone to derive moral principles. The problem with this approach is that our immorality causes us to think irrationally. Therefore we must be moral before we can use logic to correctly to derive moral principles, but how can we be moral without first having moral principles? This is why morality leads to an upward spiral and immorality leads to a downward spiral. If we apply the moral principles we know we will be able to reason better and discover more moral principles, but we must first start with a moral principle and not reason. This also explains how very intelligent men can do very immoral acts. It starts with a simple immoral act. that act affects their ability to reason morally and leads to more and more heinous acts.

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