Kantianism

Scanlon begins his attempt to show that desire does not play a role in motivation by drawing a distinction between two types of desires: Unmotivated desires and motivated desires. Unmotivated desires are things like hunger and thirst; these types of desires are involuntary. Motivated desires are the direct result of the conclusion that there is a reason to perform an action. Moreover, our reasoning motivates motivated desires — they are voluntary. According to Scanlon, given that there are…

Title: Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative Immanuel Kant Student: Georgiana Puti Course: Introduction to Moral Philosophy Date: 8th November 2014 What is the connection between rationality and morality in Kant’s view? Morality and rationality is depicted by Kant as an action of dignity thus the connection between rationality and morality in Kant’s view is dignity. In the first and second paragraph I will discuss and argue what it morality and rationality and what is a moral and…

Assess Kant’s view that ethics should be based on duty not consequences. Philosopher Immanuel Kant proposed his theory of ethics in his 1785 book ‘Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals’. He essentially argued that moral decisions shouldn’t be based on their consequences but rather our moral duty. The deontological approach to ethics is reasonable and straightforward; it provides a stability and certainty that cannot be achieved by looking at consequences. This being said, I feel as though the…

Kantian ethics is a deontological moral theory. The criterion of rightness is that an act is right if and only if it is logically derived and therefore universally right. The decision procedure of Kantian ethics is to discover what action is logical, and do it. The rightness or wrongness of the action does not depend on their consequence but on whether they fulfill our duty. Immanuel Kant believed that there was a supreme principle of morality, and he referred to it as the categorical imperative…

Relationship of Kant’s Universal Moment to Mathematical Sublime in Boy (2010) Born on April 22, 1724 in the town of Königsberg, East Prussia, Immanuel Kant was the fourth child of nine children to a harness maker, Johann Georg and his wife Anna Regina Kant. This German philosopher’s major works offer an analysis of theoretical and moral reason and the ability of human judgement as well as having a great influence on the intellectual movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During his…

Kant introduce a method to determine whether or not the ethical system would be considered to be morally right, morally wrong, or somewhere beyond the moral realm (Guthrie, S., 2001). His source for moral justification was the categorical imperative. An imperative is considered to have two option; hypothetical or categorical. Kant speculation was if the action is good only as a means to something else, then the imperative is hypothetical; if it was considered as good in itself and resulting…

Rayan Sariedine Professor Hernandez Ethics 8 July, 2016 Moral Law A “maxim” is a basic principal that a person applies to their actions in life, that an individual uses in making decisions, i.e. motivation, goal, or context. Maxims generally are any simple guide for living. All of the decisions in a person’s life, which presumably are based on different maxims lead a person into an individual path in life. In Kant’s mind maxims are completely subjective. Knowing the difference between…

Now that I have presented de Waal's argument, I turn to exploring and evaluating Korsgaard and Kitcher's responses. Before continuing, please note that although these positions are formulated independent, I present them together. I do so, because they both argue for a very similar idea surrounding how human morality must be based in “cognitive self-consciousness about the properties of ones proposed line of action” (Macedo, xvii, 2006). Kitcher does so by appealing to “Humean/Smithian…

In the second chapter of his work Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, author Kant discusses the idea of an imperative as it relates to moral decision making, specifically how a person will decide the right course of action in any given situation. Kant defines imperative as a demand or command of reason action. When we have a goal in mind, the imperative is the reasonable course of action that we feel we must take. Kant then distinguishes between two types of imperatives. First, he…

Finally, let us dissect the genius ideology that Sir Immanuel Kant wished everyone would use to have a more perfect system of government in what is now well known as the categorical imperative. Kant attentively elucidates the bases for the structure of metaphysics to morals. He presumed that there had to be a universal proposition that was “purely based on abstraction” that will direct us to the right set of principles we could use at any given time. (Kant,Cahn, 97) Characterizing two forms of…