Kant's Duty

Helping those in need is also a big part of my life. I like to volunteer my time to help those in need who I may not necessarily know. I may not know how exactly my volunteering helps them but I know that my work has made an impact on their life. I think it is important to help those in need even if you do not know them. I being helping and giving back to the community has helped me become more understanding and selfless.

First, all individuals do have a duty to what is right, whether they act accordingly or not. All citizens are held to a duty to uphold the laws, if there was no duty then laws would not exist. Morality coincides with being loyal to the laws, being a disciplined person, and living an orderly life. These essentials are all present in Kant’s perception of duty.

If a woman walks out of a fast food restaurant and sees a homeless man and gives the man her food is this considered acting in accordance with duty? What about if a woman and a child walks out of a fast food restaurant and sees a homeless man and the woman tells the child to give the man your burger? Does this considered acting from duty or in? What is acting from duty, and in acting in accordance with duty anyway? Well, Immanuel Kant (studied philosophy) had a theory “the class of actions in accordance with duty must be distinguished from the class of actions performed from duty.” In English terms when acting from duty your intention is acting morally but, when acting in accordance with duty you will do the right thing for the wrong reason.

An Individual's autonomy can be altered or swayed by many different life circumstances, stages of human life, religion or faith and its many practices as well as mental capacity and comprehension. In regards to my own understanding towards the required reading it gives many compare and contrast between similar yet controversial topics one being of faith and religion another being that of an individual that is experiencing the manic phase of bipolar disorder. Compared to one of Jehovah's Witness' whom is making a decision based on a scriptural doctrine. The examples and practices of these two opposite and controversial topics have absolutely nothing to do with each other, however, I understand how an individual uneducated about the faith can be baffled.

According to Kant, an action can only be morally right when it is motivated by duty alone, as opposed to being motivated by duty and emotion combined or just pure emotion (Kant, Groundwork, 397). In order to defend this statement, I will begin with explaining Kant’s view of morality and what kind of judgments we make in order to discover what morality is and how it relates to the moral law. I will then proceed to explain how Kant defines duty and how it relates to having a good will. Finally, I will explain what exactly the moral law commands and tie it back in to why morally correct actions are purely motivated by duty.

Looking at this movie from Kant's viewpoint, We can say Campbell is morally wrong, by allowing himself to become a spy, he betray his duty for his country. Honesty if I remember is one of the categorical imperatives which needs to be followed, at situations. By being a spy, Campbell committed a dishonest act to his country to which he has a duty to protect. It must be noted that Campbell was indifferent to the views of the Nazis and the destruction and oppression of lives that was causing. Of course if we look at it in a different light he could have agreed to become a spy since he shared the plight of the subjugation of the Jews, I think Kant would have viewed his situation as to have no moral value. As Ackrill out it "His being a spy is also

I will be addressing Kant’s claim that “Our duties towards animal are merely indirect duties towards humanity.” What Kant is trying to say is that our duties towards animals are in a way an indirect indication of our duties as humans. So for this reason, if we are nice to animals, we are indirectly doing our responsibilities as human beings. Kant also believes that doing good to animals can positively improve the way we treat others, therefore, making us better individuals. When Kant said, “if he is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.” This means that if we are not hurting ourselves by being kind to animals, then we should be

"Acting out of duty," according to Kant means performing the action that one wants to perform. It does not refer to what the final result will be after one performs a specific action because one does not have that type of control. If a person finds the need to do something or has a desire to do something, it is up to them to do what they have to do to put in the effort to carry out that task. Regardless of what the final result or outcome is, it is out of one's control. However, depending on how one carries out their actions, the final result mat somewhat reflect the actions that were carried out.

Imagine going about your day as you usually do, lounging around, talking to your friends, etc., when without warning you are pulled up into the sky, dropped head first into a funnel, and your throat is slit so that you may bleed out and die. That is in essence how the final moments of many of the domesticated animals we raise in captivity for the sole purpose of consumption plays out. The actual ways they’re killed may differ from farm to farm and beast to beast, but that element of shock, surprise, and sudden betrayal by the world is persistent from that analogy to actuality. Not only is that a cruel life to impose on animals or others, but the mass proliferation of industrial meat production and mass consumption of such products is also creating

Kant was born in Germany in the Age of Enlightenment where Europe had two major events that changed it in terms of politics, social, and cultural. It was the Renaissance and the Storming of the Bastille in France and the eighteenth-century. A lot of scientists, writers, and philosophers have emerged, Isaac Newton, Rene Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Jean Jacques Rousseau, etc. These philosophers brought up new maxims, new theories that were taboo. In that perspective, Kant wrote Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, a book on Duty Ethics. For Kant, Duty Ethics is defined as a moral obligation, maxims that you cannot bind under any circumstances. The main two principles are the first principle of the categorical imperative and the second

Nice post! I also agreed with Kant's ethics. The idea of acting on sense of duty, and how the intentions are important to determinate the moral value of an action. The consequences for Kant may be not important because the origin of all actions are the intentions. The consequences or the out come of an action should not matter in the moral part because the intention behind is the sufficient enough to help determine the value. Kant's ideas are well argued with example, and this system seems to be the most rational from all the systems that we have seen in this

Emmanuel Kant was an influential philosopher and strong proponent of the modern era. Besides his large contribution to epistemology and metaphysics, his work in ethics was just as substantial. Kant’s ethics came to propose an objective morality, where moral judgments is not only true according to a person 's subjective view. He believed the moral worth of an action is not determined by its consequence but the motive behind it. Through Kant’s ethics, he demonstrates this duty through his unconditional moral principle, the categorical imperative. The categorical imperative expresses that morality is not about the outcome (good or bad), but the right action regardless of the outcome. It is the responsibility to do one 's duty for its own sake and not in pursuit of one’s own desire.

There are many ethical issues that are presented in this scenario. The main two include fraud and sexual harassment. Fraud is the crime of using dishonest methods to take something valuable from another person . The dishonest method in this scenario is the fake award. The objective is to convince potential customers to pay money for these fireworks that are falsely claimed to be award recognized. Sexual harassment is apparent as the colleague offered an indirect bribe for sexual activity. He tries to lure you with a fake award copy that could “increase sales to a degree that will save us all.” This is incredibly low as he is insinuating that you need the award so that you can save not only you job, but also everybody else’s. If he really wanted

obligation. In 18th century philosopher, Immanuel Kant believed that religion and morality were terrible when paired. He believed that they should be kept apart. He argued to determine what is right you can use reason and a sense of consideration for other people. Kant believed morality was constant, like

An imperative is the linguistic form of a ‘command of reason’. In section II of the Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, German philosopher Immanuel Kant writes, “the conception of an objective principle, in so far as it is obligatory for a will, is called a command (of reason), and the formula of the command is called an imperative.” It is a rule telling us what we ought to do. He distinguishes between two types of imperatives: hypothetical and categorical. Kant says, “if now the action is good only as a means to something else, then the imperative is hypothetical; if it is conceived as good in itself and consequently as being necessarily the principle of a will which of itself conforms to reason, then it is categorical." A hypothetical imperative commands actions that are instrumentally good. A categorical imperative commands action that is good and an end just by itself. Hence, the feature that differentiates categorical from hypothetical imperative is that a categorical imperative commands a certain course of conduct independently of any other purposes, goals, or ends the agent has. Kant continues,