Kantian Ethics
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- Kantian Ethics
- Duty and good will
- Objective moral law which is beyond personal opinion and is knowable through reason
- To do good to others, where one can is a duty
- it is impossible to conceive of anything in the world, or indeed out of it, which can be called good without qualification, save only a good will
- Hypothetical imperative
- Commands behaviour for an end. "if"
- Categorical imperative
- Knowledge is categorical, if telling the truth is right then we should always tell the truth
- Commands us to exercise our will in a certain way irrespective of any end. "must"
- Synthetic and Analytic propositions
- Moral knowledge is a priori synthetic
- Universal law of nature
- Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that is should become a universal maxim
- when we act we should do so that we could always do and anyone else could always do
- it would be a contradiction of the will if maxims could not be universalised
- End in itself
- Human beings are rational agents capable of free-will and this means they cannot be used for some other end
- Kingdom of ends
- The world that we must imagine, when we are searching for universal laws
- 3 Postulates
- God
- God ensured that in the end the world was arranged correctly to ensure that the highest good in the end
- Immortality
- Kantian ethics looks towards a perfect future
- immortality of the soul allows happiness to be ensured beyond this life
- Kantian ethics looks towards a perfect future
- Freedom
- the highest degree of life. Moral choices are only possible if people re free to make them
- We have to be free to do our duty
- God
- Duty and good will
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