Kant's Justification Of Moral Literacy

Moral literacy depends on disputability, fairness of application, derivability, prescriptiveness, and justification. Focusing on disputability, fairness of application, prescriptiveness, and justification, Kant’s ethical system, deontological ethics, has a strong sense of disputability because it relies solely on the person’s ability to reason out any moral claim to decide whether it is ethical. Kant believed that only through people’s reasoning and sense of duty and not through their emotions, which could vary from person to person, could a sense of universality be obtained. In this sense, by being required to reason the moral claim, disputability is strengthened because reasons can be provided for the moral claim. Moreover, the concept of reason creating the base for universality makes Kant’s fairness of application compelling because there are not
Merely being motivated by a sense of duty, is not wholly realistic because decisions have many more factors to them than a sense of duty. In the same sense, by highlighting duty and having a strict rule-based structure without much concern for consequence, how much can a motive rectify a harmful or tragic outcome? Additionally, what can be reasonably universalized without emotion taken into consideration has the potential of lacking any limitation that would keep someone who is in a depressed state from finding suicide reasonable. Within these weaknesses, utilitarianism provides the opposite side of the spectrum that compliments them while also having its own weaknesses complimented by the strengths of deontological ethics. Utilitarianism, unlike deontological ethics, is entirely based on pleasure and happiness which makes it easily justifiable and equally applied because most every person seeks happiness/pleasure and the ethical system takes into account the considerations of other