In Mark Manson's article "The One Rule for Life," we learned that philosopher Immanuel Kant believed the following:
"Each person must never be treated only as a means to some other end, but must also be treated as an end themselves."
Kant believed that we should follow rules (he liked to use the fancy term "categorical imperatives") and that if a rule is good for one person, it had to be good for all people. He believed that we are the only rational beings on earth, and that it is our duty to follow the rule above. Kant felt all human beings had value and no one had the right to use someone else to get what he or she wanted.
Which philosophical theory is closest to Kant's?
a. absolutism
b. subjectivism
c. consequentialism
d. utilitarianism