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This paper deals with Immanuel Kant’s views on absolutism in relation to lying. In the essay Über ein vermeintes Recht aus Menschenliebe zu lügen (1797), Kant expressed the view that a person was never allowed to lie, not even to a murderer if the purpose was to save an innocent person’s life. It did not matter that the intentions were good, lying was always forbidden because he claimed it harmed
