explain kant reasons for using the categorical imperative 0.0 / 5 ? Religious StudiesEthicsASOCR Created by: sophie downardCreated on: 10-03-16 18:33 introduction deontological = focuses on the act absolute his moral arguments are a priori synthetic kant was a deontologist he believed that the consequence of our actions are irrelevent to whether they are right or not 1 of 6 paragraph 2: duty and good will duty duty is what makes good will good it is important that duty is done for its own sake our motives needs to be pure kant argues we must choose to do good actions kant says that we must choose to avoid bad ones good will kant believed that there was nothing that could be said to be good except good will the only good in itself is the good will the will to do ones duty 2 of 6 paragraph 3: the diffrence between the hypothetica categorical imperative the C.A. are moral commands and do not begin with an if they tell everyone what to do according to kant they apply to everyone because they are based on an objective a priori law of reason hypothetical imperative H.I. are not moral commands to the will as they do not apply to everyone they only need to be obeyed if an individual wants to acheive a certain goal H.I. always begins with an if 3 of 6 paragraph 4: the univesalization of the laws kant first form applies to our rationality kant believed that this was how moral decisions should be made it can be applied from the golden rule "treat others how you would like to be treated" 4 of 6 paragraph 5 : formula of the end in itself kant believes that we should not exploit others or treat them to acheive an ends to treat another person as a means is to deny that person the right to be a rational and independent judge of his or her own actions 5 of 6 paragraph 6: the formula of a kingdom of ends everyone should act as if every other person was an end- a free autonomous agent everything will utitmily have an end purpose or goal in which they want to acheive pretend you live as a member of (and a leader of) the kingdom of ends where all people live as if these rules are totally valid 6 of 6
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