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    sense that war is more instinctive then that of a habit is Immanuel Kant. Kant holds the idea of the categorical imperative. Categorical is the Latin root to mean without exception and imperative means what must be done. This sums up the idea of one’s duty which Kant describes that duty is something one must do without exception. This idea of duty leans towards the idea of instinct because every person in the battle field has a duty to bring each other home at whatever cost. Sometimes that means possibly

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    us to determine if something is right and wrong is deontology which is based on the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Through his ethical framework‚ we will uncover that suicide is a morally wrong action. First‚ I will lay out the foundations of deontology which states that right action is an action that is done from duty and accords with moral and rational law. Kant sees that the categorical imperative is the way to determine if an action is morally right or wrong. First‚ you must take

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    Born Immanuel Kant in what is now known‚ as Kalingrad Russia in 1724‚ Kant became one of the greatest philosophers since the Greeks. Kant stayed in his hometown for most of his life and became famous for his brilliant mind and thoughts of his own ethical theory. Kant’s ethical theory is an analysis of the bases of the concepts of moral code and moral obligation. His theory goes into breaking down and giving guidelines to those rational beings who wish to live or seek to live a purely good life. They

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    For Immanuel Kant‚ guilt is considered a necessary condition for punishment and judicial punishment can never be used merely as a means to promote some other good for the criminal himself or civil society. He argues that‚ an offender must first be found to be deserving of punishment before any consideration is given to the utility of punishment for himself or his fellow citizens. In this view‚ utilitarian concerns can never justify the punishment of an innocent person while guilt itself demands

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    SHC34 - Duty of Care TASK 1 What it means to have a duty of care in own work role: A duty of care within my childcare setting - or indeed any other setting involves an obligation that I as childminder and leader of the setting ensure that all children in my care are taken care of and not harmed during any part of the day or during any particular activity. Within my work role I have risk assessments to undertake for day to day running of the setting plus assessments for any further activities

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    each other at individual and organizational levels. The introduction of the Kant principles which required that the individual   caught up in dilemma situation should consider particular concepts (Husted & Husted‚ 2007). First off‚ Kant argued that before making a decision‚ one should analyze the situation and try to understand and make out what duty requires. According to him the best decision to make should be what duty requires one to do. This basically means that in the decision making process

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    Defying Domestic Duties During the Victorian period‚ society was upheld by rigid social and moral values‚ with ideal forms of masculine and feminine behavior. Moral respectability and domesticity were important ideologies of feminine behavior. The woman’s mission was that of a supportive wife and caring mother and her domestic role was seen as an important and essential part of society. However‚ Kate Chopin’s main character‚ Edna Pontellier‚ in her novel‚ The Awakening (1899) and Jane Campion and

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    Immanuel Kant and Aristotle agree that all rational beings desire happiness and that all rational beings at least should desire moral righteousness. However‚ their treatments of the relationship between the two are starkly opposed. While Aristotle argues that happiness and morality are nearly synonymous (in the respect that virtue necessarily leads to happiness)‚ Kant claims that not only does happiness have no place in the realm of morality‚ but that a moral action usually must contradict the actor’s

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    Karthik Keni William Reckner Philosophy 22 30 November 2010 Kant: Formulas of Universal Law and Humanity Kant’s philosophy was based around the theory that we have a moral unconditional obligation and duty that he calls the “Categorical Imperative.” He believes that an action must be done with a motive of this moral obligation‚ and if not done with this intention then the action would hold no moral value. Under this umbrella of the “Categorical Imperative” he presents three formulations that he

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    There is another anthropological position which I want to define as an "extreme" one. This position is expressed in the works of Kant and Rawls. In their conceptions the political sphere cannot be separated from any moral standpoints and the question of justice. Nonetheless‚ their positions presuppose anthropology that is way more "positive" than the one of Machiavelli and Schmitt. For them‚ humans are necessarily rational and reasonable beings‚ and these human characteristics are primary in their

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