ABSTRACT

Mike looks nonplussed at this. He had not expected Softy Sharon to put up much of a fight. ‘If we are arguing from philosophical authorities’, he says (he thinks rather dryly), ‘I prefer Kant’s well-known view that there is a supreme practical principle, in respect of the human will, which he calls a categorical imperative and that this must be one which, ahem:

being drawn from the conception of that which is necessarily an end for everyone because it is an end in itself, constitutes an objective principle of will, and can therefore serve as a universal practical law.

And Mike stops, looking pleased with himself.