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Ces deux approches philosophiques ont contribué aux théories et aux pratiques légales et politiques. En effet, elles ont aidé à créer des sociétés qui respectent les droits individuels (Kant) tout en travaillant de façon efficace pour le bien des gens (Bentham).
Jonathan Haidt • L'hypothèse du bonheur: La redécouverte de la sagesse ancienne dans la science contemporaine (PSY. Individus, groupes, cultures) (French Edition)
And was not Kant contradicting himself when he said that we could know nothing of it, and yet claimed to know that it exists and is a ‘thing’?
Peter Singer • Hegel
Rather than offering a concrete rule with some specific content, such as “help the poor” or “honor your parents,” Kant provided an abstract rule from which (he claimed) all other valid moral rules could be derived. He called it the categorical (or unconditional) imperative: “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another … has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. … makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.”
Immanuel Kant
Even Plato, without comparison the most transcendental philosopher of pre-Christian antiquity, knows no higher virtue than Justice; he alone recommends it unconditionally and for its own sake, while all the other philosophers make a happy life--vita beata--the aim of all virtue; and it is acquired through the medium of moral behaviour. Christianity
... See moreArthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
Kant argues that every person is worthy of respect, not because we own ourselves but because we are rational beings, capable of reason; we are also autonomous beings, capable of acting and choosing freely.
Michael J. Sandel • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. - Immanuel Kant
Victoria Gallagher • Practical Law of Attraction
Freiheit, Verantwortung und Liebe