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This thinker compares a physician curing a patient to a murderer poisoning a victim when contrasting the rule of skill with the happiness-based counsel of prudence. Helga Varden added a Nazi officer to an argument criticizing this thinker first made by Benjamin Constant. The employment of assassins would be banned and standing armies abolished in this thinker’s (-5[1])proposal (15[1])for a (*) Perpetual Peace between republican (10[1])states. This thinker claimed that lying to a (10[1])man knocking on your door was not moral even if you knew he was a murderer looking for a potential victim. This thinker’s ethical system centers on acting consistently with universal (10[2])rules through the (10[1])categorical imperative. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who wrote Critique of Pure Reason. ■END■

ANSWER: Immanuel Kant
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