Overview of Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant was a philosopher who lived between 1724 and 1804 and he is always considered as the modern figure of the present day philosophy. In his arguments, Kant stated that the concepts of the human mind are always responsible for structuring most of the human experiences and that reasoning is the source of morality (Kant, 1998). He also argues that, aesthetics happens to arise from the department of disinterested judgment and that time and space are forms of our sensibility and that; the world is greatly unknowable by itself. Kant’s theory of categorical imperative is always viewed as the main contributor of modern deontological ethics that he introduced in the late 18th century (Kant & Sullivan,1996).
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In his argument, he clearly states that a given hypothetical imperative would definitely compel some action in a certain setting (Rohlf, 2010). According to the categorical imperative theory, Kant denoted that, an absolute, unconditional requirement that tends to exert its authority in all circumstances be they required or justified as an end in itself (Kant, 1998). He contributed to moral philosophy in three different ways. He stated that a person should behave in a way that his or her actions are closely to be termed as universal and be in a position to apply to everyone (Kant & Sullivan,1996). He stated that a person should act and treat humanity as both the means and the end and also stated that people should act as of they were the lawmakers of a hypothetical