Saturday, November 24, 2007

A Kantian Approach

What is Justice? Socrates said Justice cannot be taught, and therefore it cannot be learned.

Here is a useful text, it is Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.

The famous tenet of which is:
"Act only according to a maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."

Download Here (translated from the German into English, Dutch friends may prefer the German)

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