Write a 13 pages paper on mill, kant, waldron philosophy analysis. (2) The principle of Utility would neither permit nor prohibit suicide since the attitude towards it would be based on different circumstances. For example, if a person suffers from a great amount of pain (physical or emotional) and recognizes suicide as a valid solution, PU would permit it. On the other hand, suicide should be prohibited if a person has great significance for the people around. The categorical imperative would always prohibit suicide since it is a duty of a person to take care of oneself and protect one’s life and no circumstances can change it.

(3) The humanity version of the categorical imperative suggests that people should fight laziness as it wastes the talents that every one of us possesses. The major reason focuses on the idea that if everyone had been lazy, society would have never developed so that people were able to afford to be lazy. A utilitarian would approach it from a different perspective: if doing nothing brings good and please for a person, the latter should follow this path. To my mind CI provides a better account of laziness and encourages people to fight it as it engages a broad perspective on the situation, making laziness universal.

(4) Kant’s first formulation of the categorical imperative states the following: states the following: “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction”. According to this formulation, lying to escape embarrassment is not prohibited. Indeed, if one tries to universalize the above-mentioned maxim, one will see that the application of it will be highly dependant on the circumstances which contradict the notion of universality. For example, lying to parents about a bad school day to escape embarrassment does not have the same impact as lying to a military commander to escape embarrassment.