To Cheat or Not to Cheat? - A Philosophical Decision Utilizing Kantian Reasoning

Basically, this student's choice, if he copied his roommate's paper, would not be consistent with the Moral Law as understood by Immanuel Kant through his work, "Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals". Kant's concept of the moral law, is basically one philosophers attempt to rationalize and formulate a theory that would explain human actions and their causation when a person is faced with a decision. Kant infers that since we all make decisions, there must be a given, or a priori set of operations or rationale of reason we all follow in judging and making moral decisions. He is clear to…