Similarities and Differences Between Kant’s Categorical Imperative and the Golden Rule

A brief comparison

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Immanuel Kant’s famous Categorical Imperative and the well-known, long-established Golden Rule are often compared and seen as similar. The Golden Rule has even been posed by philosophers as ‘the ultimate grounding principle of the major moral-philosophic traditions — of a Kantian-like…