…Now all imperatives command either hypothetically or categorically. In this short passage, Kant explores the first formulation, first justifying it and then applies it to several cases: suicide, lying, self development, and charity. …every rational being must so act as if he were through his maxim always a lawmaking member in the universal kingdom of ends.So act that you use humanity, in your own person as well as in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.…act only according to that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.Kant has three formulations of this principle: Ethics, for Kant (1724 – 1804 CE), is primarily concerned with acting in accordance with the Good Will, actions that we can discover through the Categorical Imperative.
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