The Critic of Reason
Immanuel Kant
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A Prussian professor who never traveled far from Königsberg, yet argued that the mind shapes experience and that morality rests on rules reason can will for everyone.
Key work: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
“Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Act only on a rule you could will for everyone.
A person is an end, never only a means.
Reason has a shore it cannot sail past.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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