KANT'S DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS
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- KANT'S DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS
- DEONTOLOGY
- a type of normative moral theory that views the moral value of an action lies in its dutiful motives
- morality is a matter of duty
- whether something is wright or wrong doesn't depend on its consequence but rather an action is right or wrong in itself
- certain type of actions are right or wrong - how do we distinguish types of actions?
- a personal may kill someone - the person killing with intention is different to it being an accident or defence
- a type of normative moral theory that views the moral value of an action lies in its dutiful motives
- MAXIM - Kant's version of intentions, our personl principles that guide our decisions
- whenever we make a decision we act on a maxim
- morality is a set of principles that are the same for everyone and apply to everyone
- ACT ONLY ON THAT MAXIM THROUGH WHICH YOU CAN AT THE SAME TIME WILL THAT IT SHOULD BECOME A UNIVERSAL LAW
- THE GOOD WILL
- only good will is morally good without qualification
- its good in itself
- having a morally good will is a precondition to deserving happiness
- exampled as to why moral good is the only good without qualification
- power can be good but it depends what its used for
- only good will is morally good without qualification
- DUTY
- Kant argues that to have a good will is to be motivated by duty
- THE GOOD WILL
- an 'imperative' is a command + 'hypothetical imperatives' are statements about what you ought to do, on the assumption of some desire of goal
- they specify a means to an end
- moral duties are not hypothetical they are what we ought to do full stop - they are your duties regardless of what you want
- KANT'S DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS
- DEONTOLOGY
- a type of normative moral theory that views the moral value of an action lies in its dutiful motives
- morality is a matter of duty
- whether something is wright or wrong doesn't depend on its consequence but rather an action is right or wrong in itself
- certain type of actions are right or wrong - how do we distinguish types of actions?
- a personal may kill someone - the person killing with intention is different to it being an accident or defence
- a type of normative moral theory that views the moral value of an action lies in its dutiful motives
- MAXIM - Kant's version of intentions, our personl principles that guide our decisions
- whenever we make a decision we act on a maxim
- morality is a set of principles that are the same for everyone and apply to everyone
- ACT ONLY ON THAT MAXIM THROUGH WHICH YOU CAN AT THE SAME TIME WILL THAT IT SHOULD BECOME A UNIVERSAL LAW
- THE GOOD WILL
- only good will is morally good without qualification
- its good in itself
- having a morally good will is a precondition to deserving happiness
- exampled as to why moral good is the only good without qualification
- power can be good but it depends what its used for
- only good will is morally good without qualification
- DUTY
- Kant argues that to have a good will is to be motivated by duty
- THE GOOD WILL
- an 'imperative' is a command + 'hypothetical imperatives' are statements about what you ought to do, on the assumption of some desire of goal
- they specify a means to an end
- moral duties are not hypothetical they are what we ought to do full stop - they are your duties regardless of what you want
- CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
- its not just morally wrong to disobey the categorical imperative, its also irrational
- it involved a self-contradiction
- reason both determines what our duties are and gives us the means to discover them
- intuitively we think that morality applies to all and only rational beings
- morality is universal and so is reason according to Kant
- neither morality nor rationality depend on what we want
- neither morality nor rationality depend on what we want
- FORMULA OF HUMANITY
- only the good will is good without qualification - everything else that is valuable depends on the good will
- its not just morally wrong to disobey the categorical imperative, its also irrational
- CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
- two tests - there are two ways in which we could fail to be able to will our maxim to become a universal law
- contradiction in conception
- you want gift for a party but you don't have money so you steal one
- your maxim: 'to steal something i want if i can't afford it'
- this can only be the right thing to do if everyone could do it
- if we could all just help ourselves to whatever we wanted, the idea of owning things would disappear
- by definition you cant steal something unless it belongs to someone
- stealing presupposes that people own things
- but people can only own thing if they don't all go around helping themselves
- its logically impossible for everyone to steal
- but people can only own thing if they don't all go around helping themselves
- stealing presupposes that people own things
- by definition you cant steal something unless it belongs to someone
- if we could all just help ourselves to whatever we wanted, the idea of owning things would disappear
- this can only be the right thing to do if everyone could do it
- your maxim: 'to steal something i want if i can't afford it'
- you want gift for a party but you don't have money so you steal one
- contradiction in will
- contradiction in conception
- DEONTOLOGY
- CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
- its not just morally wrong to disobey the categorical imperative, its also irrational
- it involved a self-contradiction
- reason both determines what our duties are and gives us the means to discover them
- intuitively we think that morality applies to all and only rational beings
- morality is universal and so is reason according to Kant
- FORMULA OF HUMANITY
- only the good will is good without qualification - everything else that is valuable depends on the good will
- its not just morally wrong to disobey the categorical imperative, its also irrational
- KANT'S DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS
- two tests - there are two ways in which we could fail to be able to will our maxim to become a universal law
- contradiction in conception
- you want gift for a party but you don't have money so you steal one
- your maxim: 'to steal something i want if i can't afford it'
- this can only be the right thing to do if everyone could do it
- if we could all just help ourselves to whatever we wanted, the idea of owning things would disappear
- by definition you cant steal something unless it belongs to someone
- stealing presupposes that people own things
- but people can only own thing if they don't all go around helping themselves
- its logically impossible for everyone to steal
- but people can only own thing if they don't all go around helping themselves
- stealing presupposes that people own things
- by definition you cant steal something unless it belongs to someone
- if we could all just help ourselves to whatever we wanted, the idea of owning things would disappear
- this can only be the right thing to do if everyone could do it
- your maxim: 'to steal something i want if i can't afford it'
- you want gift for a party but you don't have money so you steal one
- contradiction in will
- contradiction in conception
- DEONTOLOGY
- 'act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end'
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