Just to add a little more on Kant, I found a quote of his that really does sum up the idea of the categorical imperative, for those of you that aren't familiar with it.
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." Kant, Immanuel; translated by James W. Ellington [1785] (1993). Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals 3rd ed.. Hackett, p30.
Have a look what wikipedia has to say about his categorical imperative theory at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
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