How to behave

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There is... Only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

The Metaphysics of Morals

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Topic

How to behave Moral theory

Author

Immanuel Kant

Source

The Metaphysics of Morals

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms Advice

Language

German

Time

1785 1780s 18th century

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Original Citation

Kant, Immanuel. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]. Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1785.

Current Citation

Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor and Jes Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Hello babies. Welcome to earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies- "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Kurt Vonnegut

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Topic

Kindness How to behave

Speaker

Eliot Rosewater

Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Source

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965, ch. 7.

Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to despise.

Thomas Hardy

A Pair of Blue Eyes

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Topic

How to behave

Speaker

Elfride Swancourt's father

Author

Thomas Hardy

Source

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hardy, Thomas. "A Pair of Blue Eyes." Tinsley's Magazine, Sept. 1872 - July 1873.

Current Citation

Hardy, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes. Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

A young man's duty is to behave well to his parents at home and to his elders abroad.

Confucius

Quoted in Analects

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Topic

Filial piety How to behave

Speaker

Confucius

Source

Analects

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Chinese

Time

221 BC 220s BC 3rd century BC

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Original Citation

Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

Current Citation

Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.