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AP European History
Unit 4 – Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments
Topic 4.3
If Immanuel Kant had not popularized the concept of "categorical imperative," how might this absence influence ethical theories within European societies?
Existentialist philosophies would supersede all other philosophical schools of thought.
The Enlightenment period would not have taken place.
Communism would have become the dominant socioeconomic system in Europe.
Other forms of moral law based on consequentialist ethics might dominate over deontological theories.
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