Welcome to Groundwork Consulting for your Morals, you must have a dozen questions. The purpose of, Groundwork Consulting for your Morals, is to provide a basis for your own personal morals. What are morals you ask? Moral or morals is a sense that is conventionally accepted of what is right and wrong. Now here at Groundwork Consulting for your Morals, we look to a grand philosopher named, Immanuel Kant. Who is this, Immanuel Kant you ask? Well he was a German philosopher who was born in 1724 and died in 1804. Immanuel Kant taught at Konigsberg University for about twenty years and earned a good reputation. As he approached the end of his life Kant’s philosophical work has been considered the starting point or points of modern philosophy. But here at Groundwork Consulting for your Morals we only concentrate on one of his works, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Now as we begin to think on our morals, take this quote from Immanuel Kant’s book, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and think about it, “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law” (Kant).
In Immanuel Kant’s work, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, the first thing he concentrates on is, ‘good will’. Kant states, “There is nothing it is possible to think of anywhere in the world, or
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He makes it out to seem like a paradox or simply that we have the illusion of freedom of will. Many of us would argue against Kant, However his notion of freedom is a little bit different. Kant believes that we are the most free when we follow his idea of a universal moral law. If you do not follow this, he thinks that you are slave to physical needs and desires that come from our nature as human beings or the world around us not from your own freedom of will. During Kant’s time period this thought of freedom of will has more to do with Christian