This paper provides a review of the Kant's work, "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals", in order to identify the most
important argumentative steps in arriving at the
categorical imperative. It looks at how Kant provides a convoluted but exhaustive analysis of what parts reason and duty play in developing moral concepts in mankind. Kant maintains that actions are moral if and only if they are undertaken for the sake of morality alone, how the moral quality of an action must be judged not according to the action's consequences but according to the motive that produced it, and finally, how actions are only moral if they are undertaken out of respect for the moral law.