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Moral Law

An ethical principle of idealist philosophy designed to serve as a basis for the behaviour of any man. Voltaire formulated Moral Law as a law of natural morality: "Treat others as you would want them to treat you." Kant presented Moral Law as an unconditional moral injunction not needing an empirical justification, eternally inherent in human nature, and called it the categorical imperative. Fichte associated Moral Law with the necessary creative activity of the individual. Everything associated with this activity is moral. Marxist ethics rejects the doctrine of Moral Law as a category outside the classes and history.