For Kant, true moral actions must be motivated by duty, not some desired outcome. To have moral worth, our actions must be ...

Here’s one of the great ethical concepts of Western Civilization: the categorical imperative. I admit I was forced to read Immanuel Kant’s book “The Critique of Practical Wisdom” while doing graduate ...

The political theories of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and others greatly influenced our Founders in the creation of our nation, as well as our patent system. In particular, Locke’s ...

Few moral precepts parallel Immanuel Kant’s concept of the Categorical Imperative (CI), in terms of their influence on the modern notion of the person as an autonomous individual; worthy of dignity, ...

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We live in times of ethical turmoil, divisions between those who believe only their truths are true and others who believe there are no universal truths at all. When these two points of view clash ...

Nowadays, people are too often forced to choose between doing what is morally right and doing what is economically beneficial. Indeed, their options sometimes appear to be mutually exclusive, making ...