| In his Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Kant takes onto himself the task ofworking on the problem of ethics in order to present a statement capable to baseand guide human action. The categorical imperative comes to incarnate that whichis the heart of an ethics called by Kant the ethics of duty, based on reason and onan allegedly pure will, disentailed of all the so called pathological inclinations, inwhich the individual would find pleasure and happiness. About a century later,Freud, stating...
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