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

"Listen to me. I am shoulding all over myself."—Stuart Smalley, "Stuart Saves His Family" (1995) Before he became a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken created the character of Stuart Smalley, ...

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, ...