immanuel kant - opposition to utilitarianism
- Created by: AliceEGray
- Created on: 22-03-15 19:12
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- Immanuel Kant
- believed in the role of reason in human affairs
- we can know what is right or wrong by using our reason alone
- he says an action only becomes moral if you do it for a good reason not just because you feel it is the right thing to do
- he believes that you should always act in a way which you would wish to become a universal law
- example: don't lie because imagine if everyone in the world lied
- do it if you would want to see it universalised, don't, if you do not
- categorical imperative
- if the action is not right for everyone to do, then it is not right for you to do it, no matter the circumstances or consequences
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