What are the 3 Maxims?

Listener · Post by **Listener** » September 17th, 2008, 12:40 pm

Hi,

Have been asked to research the 3 Maxims to do with Kantian Ethics, but i cant really find anything, was wondering if somebody here would be able to help me out.

Thanks

Belinda · Post by **Belinda** » September 17th, 2008, 3:12 pm

Motivations by 1. Good will 2. Moral worth 3. Duty

I got this from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant- ... lMorWorDut

There is a lot more of course.

Listener · Post by **Listener** » September 17th, 2008, 5:11 pm

Ah thats great, thanks a lot

pjkeeley · Post by **pjkeeley** » September 18th, 2008, 1:08 am

No offence but I hate you. Anyone who comes on this forum for help with their philosophy homework deserves to be shot.

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Belinda · Post by **Belinda** » September 18th, 2008, 2:55 am

Well , she/he made me pull my socks up. It was just information retrieval from Google, not presenting someone with an original answer

Listener · Post by **Listener** » September 18th, 2008, 4:41 am

whats wrong with asking a question on here?

Belinda · Post by **Belinda** » September 18th, 2008, 3:37 pm

Listener, if there is nothing wrong with it from your perspective, it would be interesting to read your reasoning defence of how an online phil formum should function.

I don't see anything wrong with it, because an earnest question, even if your main aim is to do your philosophy homework, makes me and probably others ask what this means to them---always good for learning. The ball is now in pjkeeley's court to explain his position.

Listener · Post by **Listener** » September 22nd, 2008, 2:04 pm

Belinda

I know you didnt say this, but for the record i didn't ask the question simply to try and complete my homework, im very interested in the subject as a whole and more so in this particular topic. As for the way a philosophy forum should function, i think it should be fine for someone to ask a question for any purpose, as people on here will most likely be able to answer a much more specific question, in much more depth than any other resource on the internet/elsewhere could. Also, any question, if posted for homework or otherwise, will bring a diversity of topics to the forum, which people can expand on and discuss forgetting that the original question was ever asked; so why anyone would want to stop questions being asked on the forum beats me.

pjkeeley · Post by **pjkeeley** » September 23rd, 2008, 2:24 am

Listener wrote:I know you didnt say this, but for the record i didn't ask the question simply to try and complete my homework, im very interested in the subject as a whole and more so in this particular topic. As for the way a philosophy forum should function, i think it should be fine for someone to ask a question for any purpose, as people on here will most likely be able to answer a much more specific question, in much more depth than any other resource on the internet/elsewhere could. Also, any question, if posted for homework or otherwise, will bring a diversity of topics to the forum, which people can expand on and discuss forgetting that the original question was ever asked; so why anyone would want to stop questions being asked on the forum beats me.

So long as that's what you intend, so be it. But the fact that you hadn't made any regular contributions to the forum before this thread, and that all you were asking in this thread was for an answer to a question instead of stimulating some kind of discussion, made it seem like you were just using the forum for your own benefit. As long as that's not what you intended to do, I have no qualms with you asking for help with your homework. Otherwise, you are going about it in the wrong way.

But heck, I'm not the forum police here. All I said was that it annoys me when people ask for help with their homework. Can't you people use Google!?!?

Belinda · Post by **Belinda** » September 23rd, 2008, 3:19 am

Isn't it nice when we get some problem ironed out!

pjkeeley · Post by **pjkeeley** » September 23rd, 2008, 11:23 am

Listener · Post by **Listener** » September 23rd, 2008, 3:11 pm

Okay fair enough, thanks

patty · Post by **patty** » September 25th, 2008, 1:00 pm

Listener wrote:Hi,

Have been asked to research the 3 Maxims to do with Kantian Ethics, but i cant really find anything, was wondering if somebody here would be able to help me out.

Thanks

Hey wait. I took that up. it is not as simple as that as far as i can remember.

one is about, when you do something, always think of what will happen if everyone does it. It is about thinking of all things we do universally.

another one is about, "man should treat others as ends not as means".

sorry forgot the third