Identify the Correct Statement Regarding Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative

question 48

Multiple Choice

Identify the correct statement regarding Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative.

• A)It believes that standards of conduct can be objectively discovered.
• B)It states that one's goal is to identify the consequences of a particular act to determine whether it is right or wrong.
• C)It is based on the idea that a decision that maximizes the ratio of good over evil for all those concerned is the ethical course.
• D)It is the notion that every person should act on only those principles that he,as a rational person,would prescribe as universal laws to be applied to the whole of humankind.

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