Philosophy · Ethics & Moral Philosophy
A topic within Ethics & Moral Philosophy, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Immanuel Kant
Grounds morality in what any rational agent must will universally, and rules out treating a person merely as a means.
Assumes prior ethics reading and a second pass; Kant defines his terms as he goes, then uses them strictly
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The ethics half of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals, working out the specific duties to oneself and to others that follow from treating rational agency as an end in itself, extending the Groundwork's single principle into a system of obligations.
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