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Kant’s contributions to ethics have been just as substantial, if not more so, than his work in metaphysics and epistemology. He is the most important proponent in philosophical history of deontological, or [[duty]] based, ethics. In Kant’s view, the sole feature that gives an action [[moral]] worth is not the outcome that is achieved by the action, but the [[motive]] that is behind the action. And the only motive that can endow an act with moral [[value]], he argues, is one that arises from universal principles discovered by reason. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_Imperative categorical imperative] is Kant’s famous statement of this duty: “Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” [https://iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/ IEP]
Kant’s contributions to ethics have been just as substantial, if not more so, than his work in metaphysics and epistemology. He is the most important proponent in philosophical history of deontological, or [[duty]] based, ethics. In Kant’s view, the sole feature that gives an action [[moral]] worth is not the outcome that is achieved by the action, but the [[motive]] that is behind the action. And the only motive that can endow an act with moral [[value]], he argues, is one that arises from universal principles discovered by reason. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_Imperative categorical imperative] is Kant’s famous statement of this duty: “Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” [https://iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/ IEP]
==Suggested Reading==
#Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987.
#Critique of Practical Reason, trans. Mary Gregor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
#Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Werner Pluhar. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1996.
#Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. ed. Mary Gregor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
#Logic, trans. Robert S. Hartman and Wolfgang Schwarz. New York: Dover Publications, 1974.
#Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, trans. James Ellington. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1975.
#The Metaphysics of Morals. trans. Mary Gregor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
#Opus Postumum, ed. Eckart Forster, trans. Eckart Forster and Michael Rosen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
#Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, trans. Gary Hatfield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
#Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone. trans. T.M. Greene and H.H. Hudson. New York: Harper and Row, 1960.
#Theoretical Philosophy, trans. David Walford and Ralf Meerbote. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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