Kantian Ethics Duty

What role does duty play in ethics? Based on this, do you resonate more with the utilitarian, virtue ethics, Kantian, natural rights, or egoist theories? Provide an example if you choose to answer this question.

While, I tend to agree more with the Kantian principle of categorical imperatives which tend to say that morals should come not out of desires or wants but out of duty as desires and wants are hypothetical Imperatives. Duty should be the deciding factor for what is ethical or not. I tend to agree more with Kant based on the fact that he seems to suggest that you should not be judged based on your actions only but also your motives. Your actions are moral if they would be morally permissible if everyone is doing it and if they are
Things like can I spare some change for that beggar? Should I open the door for that fair lady or not? Do I help that old woman or not? All these and a host of other questions of your morals and ethics comes into play. When dealing with these problems now, I just tend to stop and think about why exactly I want to take the actions I am contemplating. I tend to think of how the world will look like if every human on earth did what I am about to do. If the world would be a better place, then I would go ahead and if not, I would just stop and think of a better action to take. It has helped me to decrease my motive and put my urge for revenge under check. This is because revenge is only a hypothetical imperative born out of desire and not duty. I think in essence it has made me a better
This is because I believe the end justifies the means. Let us give an example of a doctor who can’t really get a medication to treat a patient. However the condition of the patient was so life-threatening that the doctor had to give the patients some unofficial prescriptions after which the patient died. It does not matter now whether it’s the drug of the disease that killed the patient but once the doctor is discovered to have given unofficial medication he might have his licence seized. His intention was actually to save the patient but it is seen as less important as the consequences of his action will only serve to vilify him or make him look incompetent. Hence the end determines the