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Schopenhauer rejected this idea on the basis that it reduces to self-interested egoism. Section III of one work argues that this idea is the law of a will that is positively free, a definition taken up by Christine Korsgaard in The (20[1])Sources (20[1])of Normativity. This idea is presented via four equivalent formulas, like the formula of humanity and the formula of autonomy. Benjamin Constant’s objection to this idea argues it would compel one to tell a (*) murderer the location (10[1])of his victim. This deontological principle states that one should only act according to maxims that can be willed to be universal law. The Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals introduced, for 10 points, what central principle of Immanuel Kant’s ethics? ■END■

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