Kantain Ethics
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- Created on: 09-01-19 11:38
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- Kantain Ethics
- Facie Duties
- Duty is important to Kant- we must uphold certain duties to do good
- W.D.Ross's
- Prima Facie Duties- conditional duties that ought to be followed, e.g. gratitude, harm prevention
- More flexible than Kant's rigid moral maxims, more situational
- Kant says duty over emotion, you must be rational
- Summum Bonnum- highest happiness
- Categorical + Hypothetical Imperitive
- Hypothetical- an instruction, ought
- Categorical- applied to morality, true unconditionally and should be applied without condition, priori
- Three conditions: universibility, not using others for own benefit, imagining everyone completed this decision
- Rational beings guided by maxims, principles and laws, in froms of commands or imperitives
- Morality and Human Nature
- Morality is objective, coming from duty and moral laws, an absolute neccassity
- Derived from rationality, so being immoral is irrational
- Agreeing with Plato- principles of morality are objective like maths, and both rationally demonstrable
- Human Nature- animals, humans and Gods/angels
- Gods and Angels have reason and are perfectly rational
- Humans have rational thoughts and desires and reason
- Animals have desire and no reason
- Morality is objective, coming from duty and moral laws, an absolute neccassity
- Autonomy + Heteronomy
- Heteronomy- state of being directed by others in our decision making
- Autonomous will- no inner desires, acting freely and rationally. Individual deciding own moral laws
- Heterononomous Will- unfree, morally constrainer inner desires. What you are told to do e.g. Church
- Facie Duties
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