Kant - criticism and amendments


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  • some criticisms and amendments of Kant
    • justice
      • morality of an action not derived from the benefit produced but intrinsic rightness of the action performed
    • distinction between duty and inclination
      • people of good will obey a law which is universal
        • my duties to others are no different to my duties to myself
    • laws that are universal and not self-contradictory
      • possible to arrive at a rule that are neither preferential or morally significant
      • rule universalised does not have to be morally good or even moral at all
        • Kant suggests the practical test - rejecting what is contrary the objectives that all rational people have
    • love, compassion and sympathy
      • always needing to think of duty rather than feelings makes them a worse person?
    • different way of phrasing maxim makes it universal
      • should not be the way of phrasing but the maxim in itself should be judged for its universality
  • limitations of absolutism
    • making exceptions are morally permissible-decision made  without exceptions may be morally reprehensible
      • when our duties conflict?
    • some criticisms and amendments of Kant
      • justice
        • morality of an action not derived from the benefit produced but intrinsic rightness of the action performed
      • distinction between duty and inclination
        • people of good will obey a law which is universal
          • my duties to others are no different to my duties to myself
      • laws that are universal and not self-contradictory
        • possible to arrive at a rule that are neither preferential or morally significant
        • rule universalised does not have to be morally good or even moral at all
          • Kant suggests the practical test - rejecting what is contrary the objectives that all rational people have
      • love, compassion and sympathy
        • always needing to think of duty rather than feelings makes them a worse person?
      • different way of phrasing maxim makes it universal
        • should not be the way of phrasing but the maxim in itself should be judged for its universality

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