Question

Based on this video, explain what the Categorical Imperative consists in. Also, explain the downside of the Kant's Categorical Imperative.

Answer 1

Categorical imperative are imperatives that command a person to do some action, i.e. they bind all agents irrespective of their desires and interests but this binding is not selective binding: that is, they bind categorically; put differently, accordingly, in a categorical imperative we have "Do act A (irrespective of our desires/interests)." The downside is; People rarely act purely out of duty as they always have some expectation of what they'll get in return; hence Kant's Categorical Imperative is not natural.