According to Kant‚ he believes that the only thing unconditionally good is good will. Good will is the idea of people having to do ones moral duty. Kant’s ethical theories are based off of the categorical imperatives. Categorical imperatives‚ as stated during class‚ act only on those rules that you can rationally will to be universal. In response to Kant’s theory‚ I believe that good will is not the only thing that is unconditionally good. I believe this because there will be many instances in life
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On Structure: Michael Drayton’s Sonnet “Since There’s No Help” (Idea 61) There are many different ways to approach the structure of a poem‚ a piece of fiction‚ a play. In what follows I’m going to make some suggestions about the structure of Michael Drayton’s poem beginning “Since there’s no help‚ come let us kiss and part‚” a sonnet from his collection titled Idea‚ first published in 1593. It’s important for you to understand that there are many valuable and illuminating ways to talk about
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Ethical Manifesto COM450 Communication Ethics University of Phoenix Ethical Manifesto Categorical Imperative and Golden Mean are the models of ethical decision making that most mirror my own ethical decision making practices. Categorical Imperative closely models my own ethical decision making practices. Its moral universalism has been widely influential on equality and human rights. When faced with an ethical decision‚ I try to weigh what is best for me and what is best for all parties involved
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Universality and Reversibility: Justice and Fairness The categorical imperative incorporates two criteria for determining moral right and wrong: universalizability and reversibility. Universalizability means the person’s reasons for acting must be reasons that everyone could act on at least in principle. Reversibility means the person’s reasons for acting must be reasons that he or she would be willing to have all others use‚ even as a basis of how they treat him or her. That is‚ one’s reasons
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you could save these people’s lives then I think he would say that torturing the prisoner is justified. I don’t think Kant’s morality has to do with intentions like kindness per se‚ but more to do with the second formulation of the categorical imperative: that is "Act in such a way that you treat humanity‚ whether in your own person or in the person of any other‚ always at the same time as an end and never merely as a means to an end." So torturing a person for some information or for some other
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Stylistic Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Abstract Higher level English learners always pay attention to English public speech‚ especially those inaugural speeches. They take them as fine literary efforts and good analysis material. This paper tries to give an analysis of Obama’s inaugural speech from stylistic perspective‚ in order to help to better appreciate Obama’s presentation skills. Keywords: stylistics‚ syntactic‚ lexics‚ rhetoric Barack Hussein Obama was elected to be the forty-fourth
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good moral judgments made can become universal for everyone. Kant believed a person’s motive‚ his intentions of an action are 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
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being‚ we can engage in actions or act according the maxim or principle in which that maxim could become by our will a universal law. This maxim or principal is applicable to everyone and I could not be of exception. According to the categorical imperative‚ we must comply with certain duties. Kant draws a distinction between perfect duties and imperfect duties. A perfect duty is a maxim‚ which one must always do. An imperfect duty shall not be ignored‚ but it’s possible to be fulfilled in different
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The Harm Principle requires less from us because it does not ask us to question the value we put on different aspects of life like the Best Interest Standard. There are eight conditions that have to be meet in order for the harm principle to justify state intervention‚ these are typically objective. The Best Interest Standard makes it difficult to define what’s in the “best interest of the child‚ it also questions whether greater value should be based on the servile rate of the child or the side
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"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law” was a quote by the philosopher Immanuel Kant who developed what is known as deontological ethics followed by his famous categorical imperatives. Kant embraced the idea that all human beings have equal worth and therefore it is important to protect and promote each person’s freedom. He was in favor of laying down obligations because he believed that citizenship should be a task‚ a responsibility
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