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Kant's last application of the categorical imperative in Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals is of charity.

He proposes a fourth man who finds his own life fine but sees other people struggling with life and who ponders the outcome of doing nothing to help those in need ( while not envying them or accepting anything from them ).

While Kant admits that humanity could subsist ( and admits it could possibly perform better ) if this were universal, he states in Grounding: