The Rule That Defines Right vs Wrong 👀🧠 #shorts

Added: 2026-04-29

[00:00:00]As human beings, what makes us truly human? What allows us to achieve our ideal state? The first principle is a principle of universality. So, imagine that all your actions will be reflected throughout the universe. So, if you smile, everyone smiles at once. You get angry, everyone gets angry at once.

[00:00:19]And then you ask yourself, what sort of society do I do I want to live in? Do I want to live in a society where everyone is smiling or angry, right? And then that's the way you should behave. The the law of universality.

[00:00:30]Second is the idea of free will. No one can compel you to smile. You must smile out of your own free choice. Even though smiling makes you feel happy, if I make you smile, that goes against um the good of humanity, okay? The third is [snorts] the idea of human as an end. So, I can never sacrifice another human being in order to achieve a better society, because we are the ultimate end. So, these these together um the categorical imperative is what gives us the theory of the general will.

[00:01:03]So, even though we all vote to eat ice cream, we shouldn't eat ice cream, because that's not how we we achieve enlightenment. That's not how we achieve the ideal state, okay? We should think about Kant's categorical imperative. So, for Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this is the social contract. This is the ideal state.