The way you achieve something is just as important as the outcome itself. For example they believe murder is wrong in every circumstance. For example in abortion, there is nothing to justify killing an unborn human no matter what the outcome, as even the very act of murder is evil. Another example of making moral decisions is ?The Universal Law' - Moral laws are applied to all situations for all people...
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In the example of stealing, this suggests that it is always wrong regardless of the situation. Exceptions are not allowed, for example even if a thief in their defence was living in poverty and had to steal in order to live it is still wrong according to the principle and shouldn't be done. Also when talking about what is ?right and wrong' [ which is a definite statement, whereby you can either be right or wrong, there is no inbetween] you can either have a ?relativist' or an ?absolutest' point of view...
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Kants categorical Imperitave applied Secondly, one should act in a way that all rational beings are treated as ends in themselves, never as means merely. In this version of categorical imperative, consent has much to do with whether of not you are treating a person as means merely...	2 / 484
Ethics of Dignity and Freedom He believed that we are in essence each making our own moral laws based on reason and rationality (autonomy) as opposed to attempting to obey externally created sets of moral laws like the bible's 10 commandments (heteronomy)...	3 / 816
Secualr Ethics Thus, the first formulation of the "categorical imperative" is, "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law...	5 / 1189
Kant's Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysics Of Moral The first example is of a man who is suffering from many misfortunes in life and wishes to commit sucicide on the basis of self-love. Kant declares that this cannot be the categorical imperative at work because the maxim derived from self-love, to shorten his life to avoid more pain, is a contradiction in itself for no man can kill himself painlessly and therefore cannot be a universal maxim...	3 / 792