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Maxims are rules, the correct application of which is part of the art they govern.Maxims can only function within a framework of personal (i.e., experiential) knowledge.īy using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. This indicates that agents are not always the best judges of their own maxims or motives. It might appear to someone that he has acted entirely from duty, but this could always be an illusion of self-interest: of wanting to see oneself in the best, most noble light. Kant himself believed that it is impossible to know whether anyones action has ever had moral worth. That is, a persons action has moral worth when he does his duty purely for the sake of duty, or does the right thing for the right reason. Dear visitor, you went to the site as not registered user, we recommend Register or enter the site with your name.

All content cited is derived from their respective sources. Tennyson speaks of a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughters heart ( Locksley Hall ), and maxims have generally been associated with a folksy or copy-book approach to morality.A maxim is thought to be part of an agents thought process for every rational action, indicating in its standard form: (1) the action, or type of action (2) the conditions under which it is to be done and (3.

All images are copyrighted to their respective owners. Disclaimer: This site is only for demonstration purposes. I therefore apply the maxim to the present case and ask whether it could indeed take the form of a law, and consequently whether I could through my maxim at the same time give such a law as this: that everyone may deny a deposit which no one can prove has been made. Download PDF Maxim Korea - October 2018 from. Now I have a deposit in my hands, the owner of which has died and left no record of it.

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