Kant

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 Immanuel Kant
- Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher during
the Enlightenment era of the late 18th century.
- He was born on April 22, 1724, in Konigsberg,
Prussia. And his death was on February 12, 1804.
- He was the fourth of nine children born to Anna
Regina Reuter and Johann Georg Kant.
- Kant attended college at the University of
Königsberg, known as the Albertina year 1740-1746.
-After 6 years he became a private tutor to young
children.
 The Good Will
“There is nothing it is possible to think
of anywhere in the world, or indeed
anything at all outside it, that can be
held to be good without limitation,
excepting only a good will” – Immanuel
Kant

• What is good will?

• What does “without qualification” mean?
• What is it have a good will?
 The Categoral Imperative
• The first formulation of the categorical
imperative says: “Always act so that you
may also wish that the maxim of your
action become a universal law.”
• A second formulation of the categorical
imperative states: “Act in such a way
that you treat humanity, whether in
your own person or in that of another,
always at the same time as an end and
never merely as a means. ”