In this essay, I would like to describe the Kantian theory and Utilitarianism theory and also my opinion according to both theories. As per the Kantian theory, main moral is to always follow your duty and responsibilities. So the duty of our situation is to go with the earlier will. While as per the Utilitarianism main purpose is to maximize happiness. So utilitarianism will do charity because it gives help to the people. But, as per my perspective, I will go to the charity. In the later part of an essay, I would highlight both the theories as well as my opinion briefly.
To begin with Kantian, there are three elements keep in mind – Goodwill, motivation and duty .he believes that respects the people and makes the good decision for them. Kant …show more content…
Humankind is under two things pleasure and pain, actions which reduce our pain and increase our happiness is a good action. For instance, in your job, if you achieved your target and you get the bonus from your employer it is happiness for u but if you didn’t achieve your target and they deduct a certain amount from salary it is unhappiness for you. As per this theory in our case, if I am the lawyer I will destroy the new will and go with earlier because the main action is happiness. If I will give money to relief fund it will help too many families and they can buy their basic needs thing from money so it gives happiness to more people. And mills theory told that if our action is to increase happiness then we are morally right. In this case, my action is happiness but doing wrong thing will affect too many parties because only I know that I am destroying new will but, in future if someone will know about that it will impact on my profession because I am doing Illegal things for the happiness. Mills and Bentham adopt a different approach to measure happiness like; Bentham adopts a quantitative approach to measure happiness. While Mills adopted the qualitative approach to measuring happiness. Therefore it is clearly under utilitarianism we are not important but the happiness we feel out of the results it is important. (pg 40) According to mills theory, it is better to sacrifice one man to save others because it will maximize the happiness of
To begin with Kantian, there are three elements keep in mind – Goodwill, motivation and duty .he believes that respects the people and makes the good decision for them. Kant …show more content…
Humankind is under two things pleasure and pain, actions which reduce our pain and increase our happiness is a good action. For instance, in your job, if you achieved your target and you get the bonus from your employer it is happiness for u but if you didn’t achieve your target and they deduct a certain amount from salary it is unhappiness for you. As per this theory in our case, if I am the lawyer I will destroy the new will and go with earlier because the main action is happiness. If I will give money to relief fund it will help too many families and they can buy their basic needs thing from money so it gives happiness to more people. And mills theory told that if our action is to increase happiness then we are morally right. In this case, my action is happiness but doing wrong thing will affect too many parties because only I know that I am destroying new will but, in future if someone will know about that it will impact on my profession because I am doing Illegal things for the happiness. Mills and Bentham adopt a different approach to measure happiness like; Bentham adopts a quantitative approach to measure happiness. While Mills adopted the qualitative approach to measuring happiness. Therefore it is clearly under utilitarianism we are not important but the happiness we feel out of the results it is important. (pg 40) According to mills theory, it is better to sacrifice one man to save others because it will maximize the happiness of