CONNECT KANT'S CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE WITH RAWLS'S JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS THROUGH THE CHANGING OF MORAL DEFENDED BY DURKHEIM

This brief essay sought to construct the understanding that Kant's Categorical Imperative is much closer to Rawls's Justice as Fairness than most of the studies are to portray, and this is justified by the mutability of morality advocated by Durkheim. The research operates through the analysis of the Categorical Imperative, concept of Kant's philosophy found in the work Critique of Pure Reason, with the concept of Justice as Fairness, found in Rawls's Theory of Justice, through the mutability of morality defended by Durkheim. For this research the different understandings of Kant and Rawls's free will and the way of absorbing the sensuous impulses of the human being stem from their historical context, since Kant portrays the moral concept of the 1780s, Rawls portrays of the 1960s. In this sense, Kant's Categorical Imperative does not in its essence diverge from Rawls's Justice as Fairness, so its differences stem from the moral realm rather than from separate conceptions of free will.