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    End in Itself‚” he discusses Kant’s theory about humanity and explains what Kant thinks humanity is and that it is the ultimate end that a person should strive for. One of the elements of this theory is Kant’s second Categorical Imperative which goes into detail with five different aspects‚ what he believes makes up humanity in a person. Then he goes on to give seven different explanations about humanity as an end. Kant also believes that there are two different types of ends‚ personal and ends

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    Philosophy Essay #4 Kant’s Views on Wrongness of Lying Kant believes humans have the highest value in the realm of existence because they are the only beings capable of reasoning. He extends this theory to say that humans have the right to use other creatures in any way they see fit as long as they are serving an end to justify the means. Kant perceives humans as the most valuable creatures because other “animals” are not able to have desires and set personal goals. Modern science invalidates

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    Moral Reasoning - Aim: Equip students to become critically minded citizens who have the ability to think through the big moral and political questions we all confront as citizens Kant (Deontology) - Rejects utilitarianism: They were half right- of course we seek to avoid pain‚ and seek pleasure. But to think that pain and pleasure drives our behavior. - Thinks that the individual person has a dignity that commands our respect- because we are rational beings‚ capable of reason.; and autonomous

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    Kant’s moral theory Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher from Kaliningrad‚ Russia who researched‚ lectured and wrote on philosophy and anthropology during the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century. According to Kant‚ human beings occupy a special place in creation‚ and morality can be summed up in one ultimate commandment of reason‚ or imperative‚ from which all duties and obligations derive. He defined an imperative as any proposition that declares

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    In his work "Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals" Kant explores the question of morality and outlines its main principles. In the Part II of his work Kant reveals what morality is‚ as well as what it is not through discussing its origin and defines morality as a type of imperative (a commanding sentence). Kant starts his reflections from making a claim that morality can in no way emanate from experience and that there has never been an experience of purely moral actions‚ because actions base

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    consequentialism was Immanuel Kant. In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals‚ Kant endeavors to establish a system of ethics that has no trace of the empirical nature of utilitarianism. To him‚ “the moral worth of an action does not lie in the effect expected from it and so too does not lie in any principle of action that needs to borrow its motive from this expected effect” (Groundwork‚ 56). Rather than determine moral worth based on cause and effect‚ Kant seeks to establish a supreme moral

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    Our morality‚ which is what‚ is right and what is wrong is based on our decisions and actions we make each and every day. Unlike animals that rely solely on instinct alone‚ we as human beings have the ability to make our own decisions based upon our beliefs. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you‚ is it morally right to pleasure the masses even if it causes harm to some people which is Mills Utilitarianism theory or do you do what is logically and morally right according to universal

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    matter what. Referring to the boiling of babies. 2. Kant called these “hypothetical imperatives” because they tell us what to do providing that we have the relevant desires. 3. Instead moral requirements are categorical: they have the form “You ought to do such-and –such period‚” 4. In his Foundations of the Metaphysical of Morals (1785)‚ he (Kant) expresses the Categorical Imperative as follows: Act only according to that maxim by which

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    The passage inspected above relates to morality in his work‚ Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Kant states‚ that laws of morality are laws that go according to which everything ought to happen. They allow for conditions in which humans naturally tend to make‚ rather than forcing humans to completely change their behavior. Laws of morality try not to include negative behavior‚ rather it promotes positive behavior that may come natural to a human being. Mankind is limited by the fact that each

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    [25] Kantian ethics are ethical principles set out by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)‚ a German thinker from East Prussia‚ and arguably one of the most influential philosophers in Western philosophy. His ‘Categorical Imperative’ theory was devised from his desire to create a stand-alone ethical theory that would not rely on assumptions‚ hence he believed in an objective right or wrong based on reason as a pose to assumptions. According to Kant‚ morals are a Priori synthetic because they are absolute‚ existing

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