The Impact Of Moral Philosopher Immanuel Kant On Lying

Moral philosopher Immanuel Kant famously stated that lying was unequivocally immoral even in extreme cases like protecting innocents from a murderer. He believed this approach was implied by the moral system he developed. Later philosophers, however, work have pointed out that his metaphysical framework does not actually imply a rule this strict and Kant, of all people, made a simple logical misstep. The question of what Kant thought about lying depends on whether we are talking about Kant the man or his philosophy. He was at odds with his own ideas. Such was also the case with Tolstoy. His life to the very end seemed to be at odds with the philosophy he espoused in his fiction and his essays. Brotherly love was both the virtue he esteemed