Category: Moral Reasoning
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CATEGORICAL MORAL REASONING
Categorical Moral Reasoning “Locates morality absolute moral requirements, in certain duties and rights, regardless of the consequences.” (Harward-Edu, 2018) The categorical imperative (German: kategorischer Imperative) is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Introduced in Kant’s 1785 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, it may be defined as a way…