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Categorical Imperative
Imagine a city where merchants trade in trust, promises are currency, and the line between honesty and advantage is thin. In this world, what stops someone from bending the rules when no one is watching—and why should anyone care about acting rightly when it costs them?By the late seventeen hundreds, Europe was a crossroads of old faith and new reason. Christian moral rules spoke of sin and divine command, but fresh voices—natural law, prudence, feeling—were crowding in. The question of why a person should do what’s right, even when self-interest whispers otherwise, hung unanswered in the…
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