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The 27 pages that link to Kantian ethics, each with the reason it gives.

• Immanuel KantBroader topic: It develops Kant’s account of autonomy, duty, and universal moral law.

• UtilitarianismCompared with: Kantian ethics rejects treating people merely as containers of aggregate welfare.

• Filial pietyCompared with: Its emphasis on universal duties offers a different basis for judging family obligations.

• Moral luckCompared with: Its emphasis on intention and duty limits the role of chance outcomes in moral worth.

• Divine command theoryCompared with: It locates moral authority in practical reason rather than divine authority.

• KantianismBroader topic: It applies Kant’s practical philosophy to questions about right action and obligation.

• ObjectificationRelated: Its distinction between using someone and treating them merely as a tool shapes objectification debates.

• Euthyphro dilemmaCompared with: It grounds moral obligation in reason rather than divine command.

• Moral motivationCompared with: It holds that reason can motivate action through recognition of moral duty.

• Practical reasonBroader topic: It is the most influential ethical framework built around practical reason's authority.

• Moral absolutismBroader topic: Kant's rejection of a right to lie is a prominent absolutist position.

• Normative ethicsBroader topic: It applies universal law and respect for persons to choices and institutions.

• LyingRelated: Kant's strict opposition to lying makes it a central test of duty-based morality.

• Aristotelian ethicsCompared with: It contrasts Aristotle’s focus on character and flourishing with morality grounded in duty.

• Rawlsian justiceRelated: Rawls’s account of persons as free and equal draws on Kantian ideas.

• Thing-in-itselfRelated: Kant connects freedom, which cannot be established as an appearance, to practical rather than theoretical reason.

• Derek ParfitRelated: Parfit argues that Kantian principles can support conclusions close to those of consequentialism.

• Nicomachean EthicsCompared with: Kantian ethics contrasts with Aristotle’s emphasis on character, human ends, and practical judgment.

• T. H. GreenRelated: Green’s account of moral agency develops themes associated with Kant.

• Act utilitarianismCompared with: Kantian ethics rejects consequences as the sole test of an action's moral rightness.

• KrausismCompared with: Krausism shares an emphasis on freedom but places it within a broader metaphysical vision of unity.

• Max SchelerCompared with: Scheler challenged Kant’s formalism by arguing that concrete values are directly experienced.

• Rational egoismCompared with: It rejects making an agent's private interests the ultimate basis of moral duty.

• EgoismCompared with: It makes duty, not personal advantage, the basis of moral requirements.

• Beyond Good and EvilCompared with: Its universal moral law exemplifies the kind of supposedly unconditional ethics Nietzsche interrogates.

• Good and evilCompared with: It grounds moral rightness in duty rather than benefit or desire.

• Michel OnfrayCompared with: Its priority of duty contrasts with Onfray’s emphasis on pleasure and embodied life.