He will accompany you, unbound and unguarded.” Although our own will is the source of value, Kant is not a subjectivist: Need two modes of evaluation: an action has moral worth if it is done for the ...

Kant taught that an action could only count as the action of a good will if it satisfied the test of the Categorical Imperative. Kant's version of duty-based ethics was based on something that he ...

The moral and economic imperative for action on climate change is clear. A universal climate change agreement is the most important tool the world has for doing the right thing, say Nobel Laureate ...

Kant's test of reversibility and principle of universalizability tell us whether an action is morally right or not. Let's ...

Part I outlines Kant's arguments in defense of his Categorical Imperative, as well as elaborating Kant's understanding of dignity and human freedom. Part II addresses the most common objections to ...

For the lens texts, you will choose excerpts from either John Stuart Mill’s essay on Utilitarianism, which argues that the goal of every society should be to maximize the collective happiness, or ...

The next quote highlights Kant’s core moral principle, the categorical imperative. According to this principle, our actions should be based on maxims that we can will to become universal laws ...

But according to the vice-admiral of the Baltic Fleet, sailors have their own categorical imperative to dismiss the philosopher's works. Kant "betrayed his motherland", Vice-Admiral Mukhametshin said.

(GMS 4:398–9) What readers often miss, however, is that the discussion of moral worth in the Groundwork serves only a very narrow purpose, i.e. establishing the non-contingency of moral action – the ...