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 ...

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 ...