explain how Kant thought CI worked and led to concrete results. After this explanation of Kant’s formalistic ethics‚ in a next chapter I will go on to introduce and explain the emptiness charges brought forward by Hegel and Mill‚ and I will conclude that CI1‚ indeed‚ remains an empty formalism. 1.1 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals-The Equivalence Thesis The opening sentence of Groundwork provides Kant’s significant distinction between the intelligible and sensible worlds: ‘‘Es ist überall nichts
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Ancient moral theory explains morality in terms that focus on the moral agent. These thinkers are interested in what constitutes‚ e.g.‚ a just person. They are concerned about the state of mind and character‚ the set of values‚ the attitudes to oneself and to others‚ and the conception of one ’s own place in the common life of a community that belong to just persons simply insofar as they are just. A modern might object that this way of proceeding is backwards. Just actions are logically prior to
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too intricate for any one theory to dominate the field. The values used to formulate a system of just law are often times based upon personal preference‚ unseen biases‚ or self-motivation. Law is such an intrinsic facet to so many different aspects of life that finding a theory of justice capable of covering the entirety of law is impossible. The fact is that‚ man has neither the impartialness nor the capability of creating such a complete theory. Without a complete theory for application we are forced
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CHCCSL504A Apply personality and development theories 1. Freud Key Concepts The mind is made up of three parts: The Id - works on the pleasure principle The ego - works on the reality principle The super-ego – works on the morality principle Stages of Development Oral stage (0-18 months) sucking especially breasts/biting Anal stage (18 months – 3 years) anal pleasure from holding in and letting go Phallic stage (3-4 years) genitalia rubbing/touching Latent stage (5-7 years) sexual
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what decides if the action is morally right or wrong—not the end result of that action or decision. Kant’s categorical imperative approach says a person has the moral duty to do what is right‚ because it is the right thing to do‚ not because it may benefit them. If a person’s actions or decisions will contradict those maxims‚ then the action should not be taken. I agree with Kant’s theory that a person’s motive is what makes a person’s action morally
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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
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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who‚ like several philosophers at the time‚ contemplated and wrote about morality‚ specifically the origin of human morals. Kant‚ unlike these other thinkers‚ believed that morality and religion‚ two topics that were typically paired together when speaking about morality‚ should be kept separate because they did not belong together. Kant believed that the only way to determine what was morally right and wrong could only be found by engaging reason‚ not religion
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Kant’s View on Space and Time In his Critique of Pure Reason‚ Immanuel Kant wrote about the science of the transcendental aesthetic in which he argues that space and time exist as a priori intuitions in the human mind. Space and time‚ for Kant‚ are the pure forms of intuition that order our empirical intuitions or sensations and allow us to have them. Thus‚ the essence of his view in this regard is that space and time are subjective human conventions that our mind brings to the realm of experience
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Concepts of right and wrong may have been part of man before he could walk on two legs. The Greek civilization solidified the ethical constructs that are pillars of morality today. Konstantinidou‚ Pavlides‚ & Fiska state “Greek mythology appears to have set the foundations for ethics and deontology in medicine and in Europe; these foundations were later used by the Hippocratic physicians in their effort to serve patients (Konstantinidou‚ Pavlides‚ & Fiska‚ 2016). The moral obligation to “Do no
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Kant’s Threefold Synthesis and Transcendental Unity of Apperception A large portion of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason concerns itself with explaining how humans are able to attain knowledge‚ especially empirical knowledge of the world. Addressing this question‚ Kant wrote: “We must enquire what are the a priori conditions on which the possibility of existence rests” (A95-96). After problematically deducing that all cognition of objects is limited by the objects’ physical appearances (A95)
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