What Immanuel Kant thinks about empathy
German philosopher (1724 to 1804), born in Königsberg, where he taught at the university; author of the three Critiques and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.
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1 dated position, c. 1785, in their own words. Our reading of what Immanuel Kant has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading'Do not do to others what you would not want done to you' cannot be a universal law of morality
Their wordsLet it not be thought that the common "quod tibi non vis fieri, etc." could serve here as the rule or principle. For it is only a deduction from the former, though with several limitations; it cannot be a universal law, for it does not contain the principle of duties to oneself, nor of the duties of benevolence to others
↗Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, 1873)gutenberg.org All 8 from this book