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Immanuel Kant was a German Enlightenment philosopher.
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Is the following application of Kant's Categorical Imperative valid?
It's been taken, in perfectionist ethics, that Kant generally supported the idea of improving one's self:
Positive duties, by contrast, are duties to exercise one’s capacity to develop one’s nature … For example, one has a duty to develop one’s talents and not to devote one’s life entirely to idleness and pleasure (Kant 1785). source
*(Kant 1785) Refers to The Metaphysics of Morals
However, this …