![]() 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. 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. Now I have a deposit in my hands, the owner of which has died and left no record of it. ![]()
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