Kant's Deontological Ethics

Kant’s Deontological Ethics Immanuel Kant is a German philosopher (1724-1804), who had contributed on the arenas of philosophy, war, peace, science, beauty & geography. The word deontology is derived from the Greek word “Deon”, meaning duty and “tology” mean theory (Mackinnon & Fiala 2018). The base idea of Kant’s Deontological ethics is just to do our duty in any circumstances. Thus, a moral agent should act for the sake of good and motivated by obligation or duty, not for an ulterior motive. In Kant’s perspective, pleasure and happiness are not the only ultimate goal of life, to mention one of the strengths of Deontological ethics is respecting human being freedom, to let them have their own choice and to follow the path they choose should be protected. This view was also his reply to
Moreover, deontological ethics is non- consequentialism because rightness or wrongness is judged by intention rather than consequence. Thus, if things don’t go well in spite of our good intentions, we should not be blamed as long as it is not in our control. Kant considered “morality backward” to consequentialism because our intention should arise from our highest intrinsic value. Moreover, he believed some religions do not give people opportunity to cultivate their good intrinsic value, in fact, they made them sought approval. Kant based his philosophy in” ancient Greek and Roman philosophy of stoicism”. He impressed by its “strength of the soul”, but he points out its weakness on the idea it undervalues the problem of being moral. Kant’s Deontological ethics argue moral worth act is the source of respect and prosperity of human beings. Thus, an action and principle to be considered moral worth should be able to pass two tests, which he named the tests categorical and hypothetical imperative. Furthermore, the theory of duty has ethical objectivism and moral absolutism as its center pillars. Which both this theory delivers that there is absolute,