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    The maxim 'I will make lying promises when it achieves something I want' generates a contradiction when universalized as a law of nature that all rational agents must lie when doing so gets them what they want.

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    Immanuel Kant(as the originator of this concept)
    An 18th-century German philosopher who developed major ideas about ethics, reasoning, and how we understand the world; he's famous for arguing that morality is based on universal rules that apply to everyone equally.
    contradiction(Relevant to distinguishing contradictions from false contingent statements in the logic student variant of the preface paradox.)
    A statement that is necessarily false in all interpretations; in this context, specifically the negation of a tautology or any falsehood drawn from a list containing only tautologies and contradictions.

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    law of nature(Hume's empiricist epistemology)
    A uniform regularity of events, discovered through experience of constant conjunctions of events or objects
    maxim(Kant's formulation of the categorical imperative)
    The prescription of an action together with the reason for it
    rational agents(Reid's account of autonomous action)
    Beings who can gain critical distance from mechanical and animal incentives and regulate their conduct by appeal to rational principles of action.
    universalized(in ethics)
    Turned into a rule that would apply to everyone in the same situation, not just yourself.

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    Kant’s example of a perfect duty to others concerns a promise you might consider making but have no intention of keeping in order to get needed money. Naturally, being rational requires not contradicting oneself, but there is no self-contradiction in the maxim “I will make lying promises when it achieves something I want.” An immoral action clearly does not involve a self-contradiction in this sense (as would the maxim of finding a married bachelor). Kant’s position is that it is irrational to p

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