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Categorical Imperative Kant

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Immanuel Kant believed that genuine morality was based on reason, with a catch that is. Kant spent a considerable amount of his life attempting to distinguish human nature apart from animal nature. He concluded that humans possessed the divine trait of reason and through a sense of duty should apply that very same trait in order to become worthy of happiness. In his pursuit to systematically define human morality, Kant, composed the Categorical Imperative. The foundational concept of this work was a stated:
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction. (Kant)
In other words, Kant suggests that we should conduct ourselves in a perfect manner in accordance
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