KANT’S CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE AS A PANACEA TO THE MORAL DEPRAVITY OF THE NIGERIAN SOCIETY

Author: Dr. Simon A. Kolawole

ABSTRACT

There is a pervasiveness of moral depravity in the contemporary Nigerian society which manifests in prostitution, rape, kidnapping for ransom, ritual killing, among others. The moral depravity has attendant calamitous consequences including growing inhumanity to others, relegation of virtues, destruction of lives and properties, sexual perversions and weakening of societal institutions. All these make the value placed on the human person low, life more precarious and the future very bleak. Consequently, it is desirable to stem the tide of moral depravity of the contemporary Nigerian society. And Kant’s categorical imperative is proposed as a tool to achieve this goal.

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