Categorical Imperative Kant

Born in 1724, Immanuel Kant became an extremely important Prussian philosopher. His parents were poor as he grew up, and were part of a strict religious group – a protestant group known as Pietism. When he was sixteen, Kant went to university in Prussia and received the equivalent of a doctoral degree by the age of 31. He taught as a professor of logic and mathematics at the university and was an extremely popular lecturer, because people wanted to hear what he had to say. He wrote several notable works as he was a prolific writer. He wrote great works such as Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). Kant was an overly critical man who lived his life in an extremely rigorous way. This is most likely led him to becoming a strict rational deontologist, believing that the morality of an action is centered on
Once one knows the categorical imperative and understands it, they can effectively take any moral dilemma, run it through the mill, and get a morally correct answer. With this test, every person should get the same answer, which is what makes it universal law. Kant provides three different versions of the categorical imperative, not to give different answers, but to emphasize different moral points. A person should be able to take any moral problem, run it through all three versions, and get the same answer every time (if said person did it right). This is what gives Kant the rep of being overly critical. The first version of the categorical imperative deals with the principle of rationality. The imperative states “always act on that maxim, such that, in the same volition, you will it to become a universal law (of nature).” This can basically be translated into a version of “the golden rule.” One could think in the sense of, “only do what you would want every other single person on the earth to do.” This puts it in the sense of universality and makes it so it applies to all