Ep 13: Categorical Imperative - From Prussia With Love

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Sep 7, 201551:15Society & Culture

One of the great debates in philosophy is whether or not moral rules are created by humans or exist independently from us as absolute truths. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that we could discover objective...

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