Sentence examples for our maxim from inspiring English sources

When we transgress, says Kant, we don't will that our maxim should become a universal law, but rather that the opposite of this maxim should remain a law universally.

Our maxim is Manage the Borders, not close them".

But Kant holds that since we are rational beings our actions always aim at some sort of end or goal, which our maxim expresses.

In short, I cannot see but that our maxim in this government is perfectly right, and that the experience of more than a century confirms the propriety of it, that any elector hath a right to be elected into any office of state.

"Eight years ago, my dad and I presented our line to some mass market retail store giants that looked at us like we had two heads," says Rebecca. "Those same retailers are now developing and stocking their own private label brand copies of our Maxim brand!

The views of Hegel may thus be compatible with Kant in supporting our maxim.

We may be unaware of our maxims, we may not act consistently on the same maxims, and our maxims may not be consistent with one another.

So why do so few of us take the time to commit our maxims to paper?

No doubt, the test would be over-exclusive if we were forced to phrase our maxims at a very low level of generality.

Moreover, since Kant holds that desires never cause us to act, but rather we always choose to act on a maxim even when that maxim specifies the satisfaction of a desire as the goal of our action, it also follows that we are always free in the sense that we freely choose our maxims.

Virtue's primary opponent is "radical evil in human nature"—a propensity to give self-love (and inclinations generally) priority over the moral law in our maxims (Rel 6 29, 35 37, 57 n., 58).