In the beginning of section one, Kant considers several qualities that Hume has called praiseworthy -- wit, judgment, courage, resolution, perseverance, moderation -- and deems them ambiguous at best, certainly not worthy of esteem by themselves. ... The universal principle for morality in Kant's view is if the maxim of a particular action is acceptable as a universal law. ... Given Kant's categorical imperative, it would only be acceptable for one to lie if it would also be acceptable for anyone else to lie. ...

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Using people was acceptable, but not as a means to an end. Using a barber to cut your hair or a bartender to poor you a drink is acceptable if you treat them as a human being and not as a means to simply get something you want. ... One person cannot believe something to be immoral that another has deemed to be moral because if they were to ever have to cross paths chaos would occur. ...

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Tom wants to be deemed acceptable, yet start a gang on the side. ... Approaching the free states Huck starts worrying that maybe society was right and helping Jim is morally wrong because society deemed slavery civilized. ...

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