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What, you think it doesn't? Aren't our laws based on ethics and morals?
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First, he did believe in God, and was a Christian. This influenced his belief that there must be a universal morality. But he also has a belief in pure reason, and that it can answer virtually all our questions. Specifically, reason, to Kant, leads us to the categorical imperative, which is the one principle from which, for Kant, all morality stems.
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He's German! Most are *all about* "systems" and order! He re-states the ubiquitous "Golden Rule" in his Catagorical Imperative. ;-)
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'Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to call in philosophy for the purpose of rendering the system of morals more complete and intelligible, and its rules more convenient for use (especially for disputation), but not so as to draw off the common understanding from its happy simplicity, or to bring it by means of philosophy into a new path of inquiry and instruction?' Kant: http://philosophy.eserver.org/kant/metaphys-of-morals.txt He would feel that it is fundamental for the survival of mankind in a functional society or so I surmise.
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