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Kant's Moral Philosophy....
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Basically, we are not to use others to achieve further goals. Any and every individual comprises the ultimate moral goal (though that goal is not defined here) and as such, using another to acomplish a goal is minimizing the value of the goal inherant in that person (hence immoral)
The morality of actions is judged by the outcome that would result if everyone took similar actions. If this would produce an undesireable result, the action is immoral.
This theory fits well with most of the big valuations. It explains well why lying, murder, etc. are wrong and why peace and respect would be good. In practice, however, individuals do occationally need to be used as means (soldiers for example) and the valuation of "if everyone does it" does not factor in that everyone probably won't do it.
That's my 2 bit take on it based on a college course I took a few years back.
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Close. The first formulation of the categorical imperative goes something like this: always act so that the maxim of your action could be a universal law. The way it won't work out is if such a law is inherently contradictory in some way, rather than whether or not the outcome is desirable. For example, if everyone lied, then lying would make no sense anymore, because everyone would know not to trust each other.
You've pointed out the big practical problem with the philosophy, but the other is that it doesn't quite do everything Kant wants. For example, his reasoning on suicide is weak, if not outright faulty.
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