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Kantianism - Indian Hills Community College

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The categorical imperative is the centerpiece of Kant’s ethical theory. The term categorical imperative, basically means “absolute command.” Kant is referring to, what he sees as, an exceptionless obligation to perform the action dictated by the categorical imperative. Perhaps the best way to understand the categorical imperative is to ...

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Duty-based ethics - USILACS

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The Categorical Imperative Kant's version of dut y-based ethics was based on something that he called 'the categorical imperative' which he intended to be the basis of all other rules (a 'categorical imperative' is a rule that is true in all circumstances.) The categorical imperative comes in two versions which each emphasise different aspects ...

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Humanity Formulation of the Categorical Imperative

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Categorical Imperative The humanity formulation of the categorical imperative: "Act so to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in another, in every case as an end and never merely as a …

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Philosophy 1100: Ethics - University of Colorado Boulder

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Kant’s Categorical Imperative (KCI) have been forms of monism in the Normative Ethics of Behavior. something all our theories have had in common A theory is a form of monism if, according to it, there is just one basic thing that all right acts have in common.

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Morality as Freedom - Harvard University

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categorical imperative is the free will's law or principle. But it may seem unclear why this more than anything else should be the free will's principle. If it is free to make its own law, why can't it make any law whatever? To see why, imagine an attempt to discover the freely adopted principle on which some action is based.