Kant and the Criminal
6 min readFeb 20, 2022
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”-Immanuel Kant
The ethics of Aristotle taught young men his virtues as a moral code and as key to happiness until 529 C.E., when Byzantine Emperor Justinian I converted the empire to Christianity and forced the closing of non-Christian schools of philosophy. For nearly a millennium Christian and its dependency…