Objections to the first formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative

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The generalised maxim would be: "Whenever anyone is asked a question, they will always tell the whole truth". This maxim can be willed consistently, for there is no self-defeating element in the maxim itself and there is no contradiction with any other will one might have...
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Everyone would want the truth from the person they asked a question to. Hence it is moral obligation to consistently tell the truth. In opposition to the first formualation of the Categorical Imperative, Benjamin Constant proposed the famous example called the Case of the Inquiring Murderer which showed that the moral laws of Kant are too absolute...
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