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Kant's ........... says : 'Act in such a way that the maxim of your action could be made the maxim of a general action'.

  • A.Principle of solidarity
  • B.Principle of social action
  • C.Categorical imperative
  • D.Principle of common good

Answer: C

It is Kant's categorical imperative.

Kant's first formulation of the categorical imperative is to act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will to become a universal law. It is 'categorical' because it binds unconditionally, whatever one's desires, unlike a hypothetical imperative of the form 'if you want X, do Y'.

Solidarity is Duguit's idea of social interdependence, the common good is the aim of Aquinas's natural law and later Catholic social thought, and 'principle of social action' is not a Kantian term.

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