Inflating student grades is lying and not providing the actual grades earned by students. Kant believed that lying was absolutely forbidden, even in cases where the action would bring greater happiness to the individual. In Kant's deontological moral philosophy, moral law is based on the form of the categorical imperative. The categorical imperative is an unconditional command. It is applicable to everyone equally being a human being. It includes three components: universalizability, reversibility and impartiality. In order to understand Kant's view on Loyola grade inflation more deeply, we must consider the three components as tests that we should be able to perform.