Immanuel Kant:
The Categorical Imperative:
Two Formulations
Kant

The Universal Law formulation:

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
The Persons as Ends formulation:
Act in such a way that you treat humanity whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 18 September 2008