Kantian Ethics

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Created on: 05-05-13 21:50

Who created dates why etc

Immanuel Kant 18th/19th century- 17th century warfare in Britain catholic/protestant - ethics free from domination of religion - Human reasoning in determining moral truth - rejected empiricism and relativism -moral law based on maxims

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What type of Argument

- Deontological no emotion follow good will - Synthetic A Priori - universal

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What type of people did Kant want to create and how

Autonomous Individuals through the Catagorical And Hypithetical Imperative and Summum Bonum

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Explain the Categorical Imperative

- The principle of universibility - Treat people as an ends not as a mean to an ends - A kingdom of ends

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Explain the Hypothetical imperative

'ought implies can' groundwork for metaphysics and morals - Not universal or absolute - if i want to pass my exam i ought to revise

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Explain Summum Bonum

Virtue+happiness= Summum Bonum - Heaven - Life isn't fair - The moral argument - The highest Good - Teleological

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- Deontological no emotion follow good will - Synthetic A Priori - universal

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