Is the story, “A Horseman in the Sky”, of a young man’s decision to join the union military, which eventually lead him to a precarious circumstance; which he found himself confronted with an ethical and moral battle. A young Virginian man confronted his father with the news that he would be joining a military regiment in the state of Grafton, with this news the father, reluctantly, accepted the boys decision. The father, calling his son a traitor to the state of Virginia, added, “Should we both live to the end of the war, we will speak further into the matter” (pp. 98). The son departed soon after, and due to the broad knowledge of the landscape of Virginia soon found himself highly praised in his new military role fighting against the very state in which he resided.
While resting following an extensive journey, the sentinel was awoken with an unsettling certainty; in an interesting twist of fate the …show more content…
Kant’s theory discusses this in great detail and states, “an action is morally correct if its maxim can be willed as a universal law.” specifically, “actions that have both moral worth and moral correctness are morally good actions.”(pp.158)
Moreover, Kant contended, “an act’s moral worth depends on the reason for which it is done, it is not enough that the act conforms to duty; it also must be done for the sake of duty. Moreover, “it must be done out of concern for what is morally right, not out of self-serving motive.” In applying this concept to the action of both the young man and his father, I believe that both men did what was morally good. Despite the obvious struggle between conflicting expectations, the men acted according to what was morally right for
While resting following an extensive journey, the sentinel was awoken with an unsettling certainty; in an interesting twist of fate the …show more content…
Kant’s theory discusses this in great detail and states, “an action is morally correct if its maxim can be willed as a universal law.” specifically, “actions that have both moral worth and moral correctness are morally good actions.”(pp.158)
Moreover, Kant contended, “an act’s moral worth depends on the reason for which it is done, it is not enough that the act conforms to duty; it also must be done for the sake of duty. Moreover, “it must be done out of concern for what is morally right, not out of self-serving motive.” In applying this concept to the action of both the young man and his father, I believe that both men did what was morally good. Despite the obvious struggle between conflicting expectations, the men acted according to what was morally right for