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Which is not a formulation that Kant gives for the categorical imperative?
{ 1 } - "So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, always at the same time as an end, and never merely as a means."
{ 2 } - "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a Universal Law of Nature."
{ 3 } - "I am always to chose an action whose good consequences outweigh its bad consequences"
{ 4 } - "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
{ 5 } - "I am never to act otherwise than so that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
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Which is not a formulation that Kant gives for the categorical imperative?
{ 1 } - "So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, always at the same time as an end, and never merely as a means."
{ 2 } - "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a Universal Law of Nature."
{ 3 } - "I am always to chose an action whose good consequences outweigh its bad consequences"
{ 4 } - "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
{ 5 } - "I am never to act otherwise than so that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
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Which is not a formulation that Kant gives for the categorical imperative?
{ 1 } - "So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, always at the same time as an end, and never merely as a means."
{ 2 } - "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a Universal Law of Nature."
{ 3 } - "I am always to chose an action whose good consequences outweigh its bad consequences"
{ 4 } - "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
{ 5 } - "I am never to act otherwise than so that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
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Which is not a formulation that Kant gives for the categorical imperative?
{ 1 } - "So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, always at the same time as an end, and never merely as a means."
{ 2 } - "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a Universal Law of Nature."
{ 3 } - "I am always to chose an action whose good consequences outweigh its bad consequences"
{ 4 } - "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
{ 5 } - "I am never to act otherwise than so that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
This is called consequentialism.
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Which is not a formulation that Kant gives for the categorical imperative?
{ 1 } - "So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, always at the same time as an end, and never merely as a means."
{ 2 } - "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a Universal Law of Nature."
{ 3 } - "I am always to chose an action whose good consequences outweigh its bad consequences"
{ 4 } - "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
{ 5 } - "I am never to act otherwise than so that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
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Which is not a formulation that Kant gives for the categorical imperative?
{ 1 } - "So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, always at the same time as an end, and never merely as a means."
{ 2 } - "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a Universal Law of Nature."
{ 3 } - "I am always to chose an action whose good consequences outweigh its bad consequences"
{ 4 } - "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
{ 5 } - "I am never to act otherwise than so that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
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