Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy establishes ethics on the basis of rationality and autonomy. Central to his system is the categorical imperative, which demands that agents act only on maxims they can ...

origins of the concept of duty (acting morally according to the good regardless of consequences) in deontological and absolutist approaches to ethics what it is (a command to act to achieve a desired ...

Let me begin with a puzzle about the Kantian notion of recognition respect - the respect due to any person regardless of merit (moral or otherwise). It is sometimes thought that the object of respect, ...

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 ...

Calling German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s ethics “terribly poor,” Chinese philosophy scholar Han Dongping has become the target of criticism for an article with a bold yet somewhat overweening title.

A short text about the basics of materialist ethics, our power to change the circumstances of everyday life and creating and developing our abilities and needs. [This text was translated into English ...

Kantian epistemology rests on the insight that our knowledge of the world arises through an active synthesis of sensory input and innate conceptual structures. In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant ...

Walzer made the remarks in an e-mail interview with the Mehr News Agency conducted by Hossein Kaji and Javad Heiran-Nia. Following is the text of the interview: Q: What are the most important ...

Every decade or so, scandals rock the business world and revive a long-running debate about the place of ethics in the business school curriculum. On one side stand advocates for greater attention to ...