Deontological ethics

In order to evaluate whether one’s actions are moral, we use many moral dilemmas. One of them is Kant’s categorical imperative. This essay presents Kant’s project of categorical imperative. Then, I will explain that rulers should appeal to Kant’s categorical imperative when making foreign policy decision. In order to support my point of view, I will give importance to the reasons of why rulers appeal to categorical imperative when making foreign policy, so I have two reasons for this. One of them

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from 1724-1804. He believed that for you to be a good person you cannot make exceptions for yourself. When you start to make exceptions for yourself you have to be able to allow exceptions for other people as well. Everyone has a reason they act or do things a certain way compared to someone else, but you can’t let your morals get in the way of how you treat people differently. An example of this would be if you had extra money in your pocket and you buy your

Immanuel Kant, the Categorical Imperative, and the Deontological Argument Kant describes the categorical imperative as a universal law, one that is formed from a collective agreement. That agreement is further clarified by Kant; “I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become universal law.” Basically, we should not do something to others that we do not want done on ourselves. Through this idea, we can evaluate questions like “Is it ever acceptable to

Kantianism Immanuel Kant was interested in the meaning of a good life, mostly doing the right thing. He was a deontologist rather than a consequentialist, meaning that he emphasised intent rather than outcome. He claimed that the materially best life is not the morally best life and that a morally best life is favoured to a materially best life. Kant started his own philosophy known as Kantianism. Even though we consider power, wealth, honour, health, and so on to be good, Kant argues that these

In this paper, I will analyze the ethical challenge that represents misleading people’s choices through manipulative advertisements campaigns. I will focus on one specific case, the Nivea-Slim Complex cream, which was charged by the Federal Trade Commission of the United States with a fine of $900,000. The claimed of Nivea’s Marketers was that women would lose weight only by using the cream. This deceptive claim was taken and overseen by the Trade Commission ending with legal consequences against

To begin with, let’s take a look at the consequences of the first Trolley Case. Consequentialism states that each and every consequence (people, animals, and situations affected) must be considered, so the moral thing to do would be to pull the lever, directing the train toward Man A. Pulling the lever results in saving five lives, which outweighs one life. If each person involved is cared for by ten people, then fifty less people will be negatively affected by their death, versus the ten that would

In the late 18th century, German philosopher Emmanuel Kant wrote a book titled Groundwork of Metaphysics of Morals. Kant describes the common principles of morality are naturally apply in life. Arguing that rational people act based on moral for the good will of the rational whole. Kant believes that to act morally, there has to be a reason behind it. People that are rational have the capacity to act on free will, based on universal and necessary laws. Kant explains two laws of imperative; Hypothetical

In Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant, he talks a lot about the different types of imperatives, and different formulas and the principles of morality. Before talking about anything else, it is important to understand the definition of imperative. An imperative is “expressed by an ought” also known as a command and they tell what the relation is in the objective laws. The different types of imperatives that Kant discuses in this book are hypothetical, categorical, technical,

In Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals, his first proposition states that an action has moral worth only if it is done out of duty. The second proposition is that an action has moral worth not because of its aim, but because of the maxim on which it is based. Therefore, it wouldn’t matter if the intent failed or backfired, as the principle was good. Will is between principle a priori and incentive a posteriori, and since Kant has stripped the will of its incentives, the goodness of an

In this specific Emmanuel Kant piece of philosophy, he is in search of explaining what are the motivations for acting upon something and also what is their maxim, you have the duty to do right and when you do wrong you are violating this duty as a human being (Kant). Kant describes a term called imperative as “any proposition declaring a certain action (or inaction) to be necessary (Kant)”. A categorical imperative would be described as being anytime where an action has an ending, which must be