Kantian Ethics

categorical imperative

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1st categorical imperative
always perform actions that may be made rules for everyone (universability)
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2nd categorical imperative
always treat people as ends in themselves not s means to an end
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3rd categorical imperative
pretend to live as a member of the kingdom of ends where all people live as if these rules re totally valid.
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summum bonum
place where happiness and virtue comes together as the highest good.
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priori analytic
statements that are knowable without experience and verifiable through reasons.
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posteriori synethetic
knowable through experience and verifiable through experience
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good will
Kant believed nothing could be good except a good will- something is good only when someone carries the duty to do it- so goodness is based in only doing the correct thing.
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always treat people as ends in themselves not s means to an end

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2nd categorical imperative

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pretend to live as a member of the kingdom of ends where all people live as if these rules re totally valid.

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place where happiness and virtue comes together as the highest good.

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statements that are knowable without experience and verifiable through reasons.

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