Kantian ethics.

... Chris Acton October, 2001 Kantian ethics. Immanual Kant Immanual Kant was born in 1724 and lived until the age of 80. He was the son of a saddler, and he was born in Kšnigsberg in East Prussia. After leaving the university he spent a number of years in private tutoring, but taking his master's degree in 1755, he settled to teach a variety of subjects as Privatdozent. In 1770 he was appointed to the chair of logic and metaphysics at Kšningsberg. It was after this that he entered on his greatest, "critical" period. He never left Kšningsberg, and he never married. His aim was to make morality a fact like science from a deontological point of view. He says that acting from a sense of duty is good, and acting on that duty is absolutely good. He says that having a good will is more important than the consequences of the act so doing

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