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Graduate of Master of Political Science, Allameh Tabatabai University of Tehran
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The purpose of this article is to examine the concept of freedom and its relationship with law in Kant's philosophy of ethics. In his philosophy of ethics, he uses freedom as the basis of moral reasoning and believes that when man has free will, then morality is real and the law of morality is valid for all human beings. According to him, freedom does not mean the possibility of doing whatever one wants, because a person who wants the freedom to do anything is in fact a slave to his low self. Authority becomes the source of action and its cause only when it is in accordance with the moral law.
In the present study, we intend to use a descriptive method to examine the relationship between freedom and moral law from the perspective of Immanuel Kant. Kant wants to show that morality is not just an abstract and formal system, but something that can be achieved and that man is in a position to make it a reality. The issue that inevitably arises is the issue of freedom and the possibility of freedom for human beings.
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