... moral obligation and so a categorical imperative and how (if applied) it can make us more free and so improve our knowledge of and our relationship with the world. In short, his main aim is to produce the basis for a theory that morality has an ultimate law which leads us to freedom. Throughout this essay I hope to explain Kant's Categorical Imperative and whether he is right to think that the whole of ethics can be derived from it. In The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and the beginning of his argument for a moral law (the Categorical Imperative), Kant immediately introduces the reader to what he calls the good will. He describes it as the choice to act without inclination and out of a sense of duty (Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals p 7, 8) This idea is fundamental to the categorical imperative as actions influenced ...

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