What Is Kant's Second Categorical Imperative
Kant’s Right Theory is based on a moral principle which is called the categorical imperative, which means to treat people freely and equally. In his first categorical imperative, he argued that we should act in a way only if our maxim became a universal law. (Midterm, P2) Maxim is the reason that some made a choice in a certain situation, and by looking at this maxim universally and reversely, we could determine rather this maxim is a universal law or not. In his second categorical imperative, we have to focused on rather the person making the decision is treating people just as a mean or not; which means is the decision maker treating others just like a tool or a free human. In this case, the maxim is “is it everywhere ok to not selling anti-HIV drugs for an affordable price to someone who needed the drugs because they are not profitable”. This maxim
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For example, many computer’s processing systems are windows, which is manufactured by Microsoft, if Microsoft decided to raise the price for their processing system, then the price of computer would also rise, which might not cause any problems for wealthy groups since they could still afford it, but for many others, computer could become more expensive and students from a low-income family might not be able to afford their computers anymore. Many other pre-monopoly companies could raise the price of their products as high as they want and not thinking about low-income consumers. In this case, many sub-Saharan people are waiting for their death without any hope because they could not afford the drugs which could extend their lives and gave them a bright future. Universally, this maxim is only benefitting a small group of people in the society and large portion of societies could
For example, many computer’s processing systems are windows, which is manufactured by Microsoft, if Microsoft decided to raise the price for their processing system, then the price of computer would also rise, which might not cause any problems for wealthy groups since they could still afford it, but for many others, computer could become more expensive and students from a low-income family might not be able to afford their computers anymore. Many other pre-monopoly companies could raise the price of their products as high as they want and not thinking about low-income consumers. In this case, many sub-Saharan people are waiting for their death without any hope because they could not afford the drugs which could extend their lives and gave them a bright future. Universally, this maxim is only benefitting a small group of people in the society and large portion of societies could