Immanuel Kant — "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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A simplified version of the Categorical Imperative from 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'. The sheer demand for universalizability can be seen as comically strict or absurdly idealistic.
Date: 1785
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