A couple of days ago, in that post about whether or not it would be moral to walk out of a housing loan, I referred to a “Kantian” argument. In case you had no idea what I was talking about, I was ...

Categorical Imperative, a term which originated in Immanuel Kant’s ethics. It expresses the moral law as ultimately enacted by reason and demanding obedience from mere respect for reason. Kant in his ...

Here’s one of the great ethical concepts of Western Civilization: the categorical imperative. I admit I was forced to read Immanuel Kant’s book “The Critique of Practical Wisdom” while doing graduate ...

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher born in Königsberg in 1724 who became one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment. He spent most of his life teaching and writing in the same city, but his ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Johann Gottlieb Becker/Public Domain. When obeying those moral laws that we could consistently and rationally will as universal laws, we are following the so-called ...

Today, we delve into one of the famous quotes by philosopher Immanuel Kant. One of Kant's categorical imperatives is the universalisability principle, in which one should "act only in accordance with ...

We live in times of ethical turmoil, divisions between those who believe only their truths are true and others who believe there are no universal truths at all. When these two points of view clash ...