Boxing match: Kant vs Wittgenstein

[Skepdick]

Kant: Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Wittgenstein: No course of action could be determined by a rule, because any course of action can be made out to accord with the rule.

Place your bets.

[Veritas Aequitas]

Point is Kant's Categorical Imperative No. 1 "Act only .." sounds/reads as if it is a 'rule' to be imposed on the individuals.
But Kant's Categorical Imperatives are to be used as merely moral standards and guides within a moral FSK for the purpose of driving moral progress.

If Wittgenstein's 'rule' refer to something that is to be imposed on individuals, then his point is not countering Kant's CI.

[Veritas Aequitas]

Here is a point where Wittgenstein understood Kant CI as not generating rules and duties that are to be imposed on individuals.

With this view clearly stated, Wisnewski invites us to rethink the history of ethics. He offers us insightful readings of Kant's and Mill's moral philosophies.

He argues that Kant's Categorical Imperative should not, pace Rawls and many of his followers, be read as a procedure for establishing action-guiding rules or moral laws.
On the contrary, if we take seriously Kant's method as it was practiced in the Groundwork, it is by mere analysis (or conceptual clarification) of the concept of morality that we find out that its principle is a categorical one, which commands nothing more than autonomy.

Wisnewski concludes that, from a Wittgensteinian point of view, what Kant is most interested in is clarifying practical rationality, and that is the main purpose of the distinction between hypothetical and categorical imperatives (or relative and absolute values in Wittgenstein).
Thus, whatever else Kant and Wittgenstein may agree on regarding, for instance, the nature of philosophical inquiry, the Categorical Imperative is a constitutive rule of the form "x counts as y in c" and not an algorithm generating all sort of duties.

https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/wittgenstei ... ification/

With Kant and Wittgenstein one will not go far based on merely cherry-picking certain statements only.