Immanuel Kant
- Jurist
- Immanuel Kant
- School
- Deontology (Kantian)
- Theory
- Categorical Imperative (act only on a maxim you can will to be a universal law); Deontological ethics; law as the sum of conditions under which freedoms can coexist.
- Quote
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
- Books
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Critique of Practical Reason (1788), The Metaphysics of Morals (1797)
- Propounded
Categorical Imperative; deontological ethics; law as the sum of conditions under which the freedom of one can coexist with the freedom of another
- Born
- 1724
- Died
- 1804
- Portrait
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