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o According to Kant, morality is doing the right thing just because you know it's the right thing.  Is that true?  o o I believe it is true. Doing the right thing without expecting anything in return is acting freely. If I understood correctly, the goal is to follow a moral standard and always doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. o o Kant imagines a shopkeeeper who does not overcharge his customers only because he fears that word of his dishonesty will spread and he'll lose money

Kant's Formalism Theory The theories of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, have had an impact on the formulation and shaping of ethics today. Immanuel Kant graced this earth from 1724 to 1804. During his eighty year life time, he formulated many interesting ideas regarding ethical conduct and motivation. Kant is strictly a non-consequentialist philosopher, which means that he believes that a person's choices should have nothing to do with the desired outcome, but instead mankind simply

Immanuel Kant is searching for moral laws that all people can follow. Kant wants these laws, or moral principles, to be universal and necessary. He believes that we should not be looking at how people currently behave, but how they ‘ought’ to behave (78). All humans have a will (83). Kant believes our will is not always good and we have to ensure that our reason is commanding our will to be good by fulfilling our duties (78). We should know the moral worth of our actions by how much we have followed

When it comes to guiding our moral actions, I believe that care ethics is the better moral philosophy to follow over Kantian deontology. While both moral philosophies strongly believe in defending the dignity of our fellow man, care ethics believes that nurturance and caring is the best way to defend a person’s dignity, as opposed to Kant who believe that our actions alone determine our dignity and worth. There are a number of reasons why one should choose care ethics over Kantian deontology. The

The good will is what we want to do unless something external prevents us from accomplishing it. It rests on good intentions, which are at the source of our every action. However, the circumstances we find ourselves into may disrupt our good intentions, and the results may not be what we had expected. On such terms, we should not be held accountable for the negative results, since our very first intention was to do good. I other words, the good will is good in itself, by virtue, and it is independent

moralities in different societies. Examples would be don’t cheat, don’t steal, and treat others as you would want to be treated. When dealing with the philosophers take on morality, there are two which are usually compared to one another, Immanuel Kant and David Hume. Immanuel Kant had many theories throughout his philosophical time. Here are some of his ethical works, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), the Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and the Metaphysics of Morals (1797), which contains

In his essay “What Is Enlightenment,” Immanuel Kant defines enlightenment as “man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity” (54). He asserts that an entire public can achieve a state of enlightenment through a slow process as opposed to a revolution, so long as the public is free. It is here that he introduces the distinction between the public use of reason and the private use of reason, as the freedom he cites as necessary to public enlightenment is the freedom to publicly use one’s reason

Born in 1724 Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher whose work is considered to be the highlight of modern philosophy. His work impacted ethics in a very big way. The fact that his writing is among the most difficult to understand Kant believed the reason for this was the source of morality, and his Critique of Pure Reason. Kant’s theory, better known as deontological theory holds truth in believing that doing the right thing and good will are motivating factors in the ethical decision making process

people as a means to an end in achieving a goal because it is disrespectful. The second rule is act in the manner that maxim the action with the intent to developing into a universal law. Immanuel Kant is a philosopher of ethics. According to an article titled "Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals" Immanuel Kant (2008) reads, "an action that is done from duty doesn’t get its moral

In 1795, Immanuel Kant a German philosopher wrote an essay titled ‘perpetual peace: a philosophical sketch’ where he lays down rubrics that define the general nature of states as political entities and how state structures and external policies should be reformed to ensure lasting peace. Over a century later, the proposal he made in this essay have been linked to traits and theories in modern day society like the democratic peace theory that states that democratic nations don’t fight one another