Kant
- Created by: Tyran Meisuria
- Created on: 21-11-12 14:19
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- Kant
- Categorical Imperative
- using humans as a means to an end
- universability
- Kingdom of Ends
- 3 Postulates of Practical Reason
- Freedom
- God
- summum bonum achieved in afterlife
- Freedom
- summum bonum achieved in afterlife
- Immortality
- summum bonum achieved in afterlife
- summum bonum achieved in afterlife
- Strengths
- straight forward
- clear criteria
- treats everyone fairly
- Gives humans intrinsic worth and dignity
- moral value comes from action itself
- Deontological absolute ethical theory based on reason
- moral statements are a priori synthetic
- Dualist
- similar to ideas of Descartes and Leibniz
- Weaknesses
- abstract so not easy to apply
- deontology is not flexible, sometimes we have to lie
- doesnt look at consequence of actions
- duties can conflict
- duty to others is more important than your own inclinations
- Categorical Imperative
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