What is the Use of the Universal Law Formula of the Categorical Imperative?

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (2):271-295 (2010)
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Many of its students are first drawn to Kant's practical philosophy because it seems to promise a theory of morality both objective and practicable. Moral theory, as Kant conceives of it, must abst...

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Ido Geiger
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