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Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
A short work in which Kant seeks the supreme principle of morality and states it as the categorical imperative, including the formulas of universal law and of humanity as an end in itself. The public-domain English translation by T. K. Abbott is titled Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals.
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“Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
— Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785), Second Section, tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott“So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.”
— Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785), Second Section, tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott