It’s hard for me to agree that “..the ends justify the means.” (281) If we were to make a decision that was based just on our happiness and pleasure we might be in turn hurting another person, so I don’t think morally I could accept this approach unless more thought was put into how my decision would affect …show more content…
Kant recognizes that morality is not about obtaining happiness but rather acting upon obligations and acting in a way that is right thing to do because “[t]he right thing to do is your duty, for the sake of duty alone.” However, this very same point I agree with is also the point that made me go with Feminine ethics. If I hadn’t known about feminine moralists and we hadn’t gone over such an extreme situation in class I may have gone with this ethical perspective. It stands however, sometimes the right thing or what we consider to be our duty has to be over looked in a situation based approach, such as with the Jews and Nazi example we went over in