Kant's philosophy - Why lying is immoral, even if one saves a life through it

Kant is famous for completely rejecting lying. Often he is criticized for not even allowing emergency lies to save a human life. But the criticism tells more about the critics - about their superficial understanding of Kant and about their own lack of morality - than about him. A morality which doesn't have the ommandment of truthfulness as its fundament is no morality.Quote: 0:08There is a commandment to be truthful in Kant's philosophy: 1:10Kant demands neither openess nor truth nor is he pedantic: 10:05The prohibition of lying is a prohibition of consequentialism: 28:57What kind of duty the duty of truthfulness is: 44:34- It is a duty of right: 45:52- It is a duty towards oneself: 1:07:51The prohibition of lying is rejected because people don't care about morality at all and they don't ask whether an action is good or evil but only what its use is: 1:25:14Without lies people could hardly be evil: 1:50:18The lie is the radical evil in the human being: 2:10:13Sincerity is the only humanly possible moral perfection: 2:30:50The truthfulness is also a condition of conscientiousness and the social contract: 2:34:21Thanks: 2:39:50Why one shouldn't lie under any circumstances, Kant discusses in his essay On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity: https://korpora.org/kant/aa08/423.html. For a deeper understanding it is recommended however to also study the scattered remarks in his handwritten estate on moral philosophy: https://korpora.org/kant/aa19/ as well as in his lectures on moral philosophy: https://www.archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes271imma | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes272imma | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0027kant_s1s1/mode/2up zu studieren (I could not find any free English translations online).Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via:https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewerhttps://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewerhttps://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77UThumbnail: www.hotpot.ai