This philosopher argued that the only way to exercise freedom is to act morally, because otherwise one's actions are bound by one's conditional desires.
This philosopher argued that the only way to exercise freedom is to act morally, because otherwise one's actions are bound by one's conditional desires. This thinker defined the title concept of one of his essays as "man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He postulated that our senses perceive only phenomena and not noumena, so we can never truly know the "thing-in-itself." This author of "What is Enlightenment?" argued that we should act only according to maxims that could be made universal law, which he called the "categorical imperative." For 10 points, name this German author of Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Pure Reason.
This philosopher argued that the only way to exercise freedom is to act morally, because otherwise one's actions are bound by one's conditional desires.
Immanuel Kant