Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics Of Ethics

Immanuel Kant’s Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics is a hard read, but filled with lots of ideas and meanings. Some of the main ideas of this reading were concerned with moral law, and duty to oneself. Kant says that morality should be judged and analyzed first before being implemented into certain situations. Any moral law that we create influences the way we think and act towards others. What I think he was saying is that every human being has the potential to create their own morality, but doing it in a conscious manner. We all have moral laws to follow, and we should act according to them. According to Kant, morals have to be won by giving it a popular character after it has been firmly established. He wants all people to be in accordance with moral law. One way that morals could be applied to humans is through anthropology, or the study of humankind. If we know how humans behave and think in certain culture, than we could apply different morals to everyone. However, how do we know whether an action is or is not good? Humans do not always know whether their actions are good or bad. It is as if we are blindly making
Kant gives us an example with a doctor and a poisoner. The doctor's job is to prescribe medication to patients to make them healthy. A poisoner on the other hand makes poison that will completely kill this victims. He compares these two as having equal values. The reason for this is because both the doctor and the poisoner have equal incentives in accomplishing something, and serve to bring abouts its purpose perfectly. He talks about people and how their ends are presented. From what I understand, ends are simple conclusions in different situations and events in life. The ends could end bad or good, because it all depends on what the person has done, and how he has morally responded to a