IMMANUEL KANT:
DUT Y-BASED
ETHICS
IMMANUEL KANT
(1724-1804)
• He was born on April 22, 1724 in
Konisberg, Prussia, or what is now
Kaliningrad, Russia.
• Immanuel Kant was the fourth of nine
children born to Johann George Cant, a
harness maker, and Anna Regina Cant.
• Kant focused on ethics, the philosophical
study of moral actions. He proposed a
moral law called the “Categorical
Imperative”
KANTIAN DUTY-BASED (DEONTOLOGY)
ETHICS
THE THEORY OF DUTY
CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
HYPOTHETICAL IMPERATIVE