Keywords: Euthanasia, Moral Dilemma, Issue, Ethical, Legal
I. Introduction Immanuel Kant’s philosophy of the human focuses and emphasizes on the dignity and self-worth of a social being. As humans are given the gift of free-will and freedom to choose, humans will be the one who holds their fate and the one’s who’ll make their own destiny. One of the most influential and well-known philosopher in the history of …show more content…
For Kant, one essential characteristic of morality is that it is a duty to action, an unconditional, categorical imperative to act. An imperative is said to be either hypothetical or categorical. Kant writes, "If now the action is good only as a means to something else, then the imperative is hypothetical; if it is conceived as good in itself and consequently as being necessarily the principle of a will which of itself conforms to reason, then it is categorical . . . ." We must act or follow accordingly as what the imperative requires us, to fulfill responsibilities in accordance to the