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Kant's categorical imperative states that one should:

1. Maximize total happiness
2. Always obey one's employer
3. Act only according to rules that one would want to become universal laws
4. Act in one's own self-interest

Answer

C. Act only according to rules that one would want to become universal laws

Solution

It is the core of Kantian (deontological) ethics.

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