This is basically the issue of whether categorical imperatives are a coherent concept. I have the same feeling as you: that they are not, and that I don’t even understand what it would mean for them to be. I’m continually baffled by the fact that so many human minds are apparently able to believe that categorical imperatives are a thing. This strikes me as a difficult problem somewhere at the intersection between philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive psychology.
If you don’t even understand what it would mean, this could be a symptom that you are understanding “categorical imperative” differently than they do. I’m going to guess that you are assuming metaethical motivational internalism.
This is basically the issue of whether categorical imperatives are a coherent concept. I have the same feeling as you: that they are not, and that I don’t even understand what it would mean for them to be. I’m continually baffled by the fact that so many human minds are apparently able to believe that categorical imperatives are a thing. This strikes me as a difficult problem somewhere at the intersection between philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive psychology.
If you don’t even understand what it would mean, this could be a symptom that you are understanding “categorical imperative” differently than they do. I’m going to guess that you are assuming metaethical motivational internalism.
Therein lies your difficulty.
No, it doesn’t, because your guess is wrong.