immanule kant?

Question

Is the categorical imperative synonymous with the GOLDEN MEAN?
Explain your answer.

Answer 1

Wow, explaining Kant is a little complicated. here's a shot.

Kant would have said that it was NOT synonymous with the Golden Mean.

Kant believed that we owe it to our society to always be moral, law abiding citizens. We had to always, in action, do what is right and obey our leaders.

In thought, we were to think outside the box and propose radical solutions. We could not act on our thoughts. We were just to propose them and let the ruler elite decide if they were good ideas.

His thinking was that society had to cooperate and that it was up to the leaders to "fix" society from the top down.

He was a huge fan of Frederick, and had him in mind as the sort of leader who would listen to radical ideas and choose the best of those.

Answer 2

Ur only answerer so far said that Kant would listen to the
most radical ideas around then choose from the best of them.
Surely,it doesnt take-an-Einstein to realise that it could
well be that None of these are any good;that the answer is
Not found that easiy;that no one has yet thoght-of the right,
simple or even obvious answer/solution.(that this can be so-
why did not anyone say what Kant said before?).

(Mass education,media and communications were,even
now,primitive;and someone may well have taught and even
wrote what Kant did-even more so!). We'll probably never
know-we can Never say for sure because such a book may
turn up. But that aside, we can go beyond even the most
critical solutions,even though i accept that any one of these
critical solutions may be,for a time,the correct answer for us.