-
your needs, your special circumstances
-
being more important than somebody else's.
-
That, I think, is the moral intuition lying behind the universalization test.
-
So, let me spell out the second,
-
Kant's second version of the categorical imperative,
-
perhaps in a way that's more intuitively accessible
-
than the formula of universal law.
-
It's the formula of humanity as an end.
-
Kant introduces the second version of the categorical imperative
-
with the following line of argument:
-
"We can't base the categorical imperative
-
on any particular interests, purposes, or ends