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 ...

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 ...

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 sake of duty. an action is morally correct if ...

i.e. establishing the non-contingency of moral action – the first of three common sense propositions that bring us to the doorstep of the categorical imperative. To be sure, Kant thinks that we have a ...

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

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.