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Kant: The Moral Philosophy

Act only on a rule you could want everyone to follow, and treat people always as ends, never only as means.

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Volume
39 of the 1990 set
Author
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Work
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, The Critique of Practical Reason, and the writings on ethics and right 1785–1797

Ideas: Duty and conscience Freedom and its limits Laws and lawgivers

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