"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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necessary such as cheating (Boss 300). Immanuel Kant developed his own version of deontology called the categorical imperative. A categorical imperative is different than a hypothetical imperative because categorical imperatives state something should be done regardless of the consequences (Boss 304). Kant developed two formulations
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an intelligible world‚ in which virtue of which‚ if I were alone‚ all my actions would always conform with the autonomy of the will‚ but as at the same time I intuit myself as a member of the world of sense‚ they ought to conform with it… (4:454). Kant explains how freedom is a moral necessity since our actions must come from our own free will without external forces persuading the action. All human beings have the ability through free will to make decisions that are moral in both their intent and
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positive and knows that the patient only has a couple of weeks to live. When in a situation where telling the truth is hard in that difficult situation‚ it almost seems that telling the truth is your last resort because you just can’t help yourself. Kant believes that lying is and will always be
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explain the seeming contradiction set forth in Kant’s examples of actions from duty. Finally‚ I will describe how Kant believes that most actions stem from a place of self-interest rather than duty‚ and argue that his distaste for this “self-love” is highly hypocritical. Firstly‚ I will address the relevance of motivating factors in determining moral worth‚ and how Kant explains this. Unlike
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September 15‚ 2015 1. Kant does not believe that animals can have rights. Why doesn’t he think so? And despite his denial of animals’ rights‚ he doesn’t think we can just treat animals however we want. Again‚ why doesn’t he think so? Explain his view of our moral or immoral treatment of animals. Kant felt that humans have no duty to animals. He stated ““Animals are not self-conscious and are there merely as a means to an end. The end is man.” According to Immanuel Kant‚ humans have no direct duties
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Much like Kant‚ I too believe it is imminent that humans will act in ways to manipulate means of opportunity in a self-promoting way in order to achieve the best possible personalized end. In order for an individual to determine what is his or her optimal end‚ he
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The Grounding of Kant’s Ethics in the Critique of Pure Reason Kant’s pure concepts of reason‚ i.e. the transcendental ideas‚ interact with and govern all use of understanding in experience1. Kant lays a foundation that argues that objects obtained from pure reason originate in logic’s speculative capacity‚ and allow for inferences to be made for the sake of experience. The Critique of Pure Reason dissects this dichotomy at length‚ and claims that there is a necessary dependence between empirical
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hold no necessity of truth. Though he acknowledges that philosophy did not yet have the tools to place necessity on causal relations‚ in the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics‚ Immanuel Kant argues that it is possible to do so. By reworking the frame of metaphysics‚ introducing synthetic‚ a priori knowledge‚ Kant avoids coming to Hume’s skeptical conclusions. Hume believes that philosophy has falsely arrived at its argument of objectivity. Specifically‚ causality is an assumption and cannot be demonstrated
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Medieval (1) St. Anselm (2) St. Augustine c) Modern (1) Descartes (2) Leibniz (3) Spinoza 3) Empiricists a) Ancient (1) Aristotle b) Medieval (1) St. Thomas Aquinas c) Modern (1) Locke (2) Berkeley (3) Hume 4) Kant and post-Kantian thinkers (Modern) a) Immanuel Kant b) Hegel 5) Pragmatism (contemporary-20th Century) a) Pierce b) James c) Dewey Skepticism- method of achieving certainty Empiricism- that is‚ there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses. Rationalism-
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