Is Natural Law the best approach to abortion Natural Law says that abortion is wrong because life is a valuable gift from God and therefore only he can take it away. A believer of the natural law would say that the unborn foetus should have the same status as a born human being because life starts at the moment of conception which means that no matter how long the foetus has been growing‚ abortion is murder. This point ties in with the right to life and other religious approaches. Under Natural
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believed that there’s a supreme principle of morality‚ which he refers to as “The Categorical Imperative.” The Categorical Imperative is an absolute command built on universal abilities. It helps us determine what our moral duties are by acting only on a maxim (rules) that one can will to be a universal law. The universal law must apply to every single person‚ even yourself‚ with no exception (Restrepo‚ “Kant_Fairness”). One example of an action I took based on Kant’s concept of “the Categorical Imperative”
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cultural and linguistic background. In conversational cooperation‚ we know maxims. There are four main maxims. 1. The Maxim of Quality (Try to make your contribution one that is true) 2. The Maxim of Quantity (Make your contribution as informative as is required‚ do not make it more informative than is required. 3. The Maxim of Relevance (Make your contributions relevant so that the contribution can be related) 4. The Maxim
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Whitey Basson’s income for 2010 using Kant’s Categorical Imperative 1. State your proposed act as a maxim: “I will take ZAR 620 000 000 when I’ve done a year’s work in order to get really‚ really rich.” 2. Restate this maxim as a universal law: “All people (7 billion of them) will take ZAR 620 000 000 when they’ve done a year’s work in order to get really‚ really rich.” 3. Ask whether your maxim is conceivable in a word ruled by the universal law: For everyone in the world to take ZAR 620 000
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they treat Wikus‚ as well as what they make him do. This problem contests with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kants deontological moral philosophy. Here are three formulated maxims that make up the categorical imperative: “The first version of the categorical imperative is act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law” (p.33‚ Shulzke 2012)… In the second formulation‚ Kant says moral actors must‚ So act that you use humanity
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congruent with principals that can be made universal. To be universal‚ the maxim must apply to absolutely everyone‚ everywhere‚ and anytime. Another stipulation in Kant’s theory is that we should never treat a person solely as a means to our own ends. It is morally wrong to use someone solely to enhance our own self-interest. The idea of universalizability strongly suits this case. To universalize the patient’s individual maxim‚ we would see that most if not all will find suicide morally justifiable
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legal maxim salus propuli est supreme lex‚ meaning welfare of the people is paramount in law. Compulsory acquisition of property involves expropriation of private rights in the property; it is a restraint on the right of private owners to be able to dispose off property according to their wish. The Law of Land Acquisition is intended to legalize the taking up‚ for public purposes‚ or for a company‚ of land which is private property of individuals the owners and occupiers‚ and pay equitable compensation
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3. Principles on which vicarious liability is based The doctrine of vicarious liability is based on principles which can be summed up in the following two maxims : (a) Qui facit per alium facit per se :- The maxim means‚ ‘he who acts through another is deemed in deemed in law as doing it himself’. The master’s responsibility for the servant’s act had also its origins in this principle. The reasoning is that a person who puts another in his place to do a class of acts in his absence‚ necessarily
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whether they are obeyed or not. The Formula of Universal Law- Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law. The Formula of Humanity- Act so that you use humanity‚ whether in your own person or that of another‚ always at the same time as an end‚ never merely as a means. The Formula of the Kingdom of Ends- Act in accordance with the maxims of a member giving universal laws for a merely possible kingdom of ends. The moral duty is
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environment in which she leads. We believe that the following three elements are the main causes of Versutia’s ineffective leadership: an organizational structure that did not fit the changing needs of the company‚ a culture divergent from Versutia’s maxims‚ and poor communication and lack of feedback. This paper will further analyze Versutia’s problem and its causes‚ as well as explore two possible solutions: reorganizing Versutia to create a more bureaucratic structure‚ and restructuring and reorganizing
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