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- Created on: 07-02-17 14:08
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- Kantian Ethics
- Summum Bonum
- The highest good or ultimate goal. Values are prioritites
- Generally seen as the ends of good
- Ancient Greek word and was introduced by philosopher, Cicero
- The highest good or ultimate goal. Values are prioritites
- Summum Bonum
- Moral law is discovered through reason
- Duty
- It's important to focus on the act not the consequence
- Only one thing is inherently good, that is good will
- Good will is only found in humans
- Not a material thing
- Good will is only found in humans
- Only one thing is inherently good, that is good will
- It's important to focus on the act not the consequence
- Duty
- Good will allows us to perform on our actions
- Morality of our choices is not affected by the outcome but by the desire
- Good Will
- Must be assessed through objective
- Good Will
- A maxim is a rule or principle
- Act not consequence
- Categorical imperative
- kant uses criteria
- Untitled
- means to an end - we cannot use other humans for our own benefit.
- Absolutist
- Someone who believes that an act is either morally evil or morally food - with no in between
- Absolutist
- kingdom of ends - when we give good gestures, this should symbolize other people giving. This creates a community.
- unity - the maxim must be able to apply to everyone. for example if we murdered Hitler we would save 5 million Jews but the act of murder is wrong
- Something is either absolutely wrong or absolutely right
- Hypothetical
- Where something is not empirically proven or definitively good or bad
- Categorical Imperative
- Where something is not empirically proven or definitively good or bad
- Hypothetical
- an unconditional moral obligation which is binding in all circumstances and is not dependent on a person's inclination or purpose
- Other Philosophers
- John Rawles
- Society is ordered, they decide what is believed to be good or bad
- Jacques Lacan
- The pursuit for sexual happiness is morally good
- Further argues the freedom of humanity
- The pursuit for sexual happiness is morally good
- W.D. Ross
- Moral order is a fundamental part of life
- The claim that something is good is if it is truly good
- Moral order is a fundamental part of life
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