People must make choices every day. Sometimes it is thought to decide, but many time we do not have to think twice about our decisions. The choices we make can be ethical or unethical, right or wrong. Over my lifetime, although I am not too old, I had to make thousands of choices. I am sure I made some unethical choices, choices that only benefited me and choices that benefited the greatest amount of people and resulted in providing the greatest amount of happiness for myself and others. Before I took Ethics class, I never thought that there are different ethical theories; I thought people act based on their moral and religious believes. The toughest choice I had to make was when I first started working at the bank. Per most of the banks’
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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher, deontologist and non-consequentialist. Kant believed that happiness should not be the goal; performing one’s duty should be the goal . My action resulted in happiness of few people, but it was wrong to act so. There are duties to and duties to not in our society. My duty and obligation in current situation was to report my coworker to HR no matter what would be the consequences and how many people would end up unhappy, which I decided not to do. There are Three Central Kantian concepts, Good Will, Moral Duty, & Maxims. Good will concept states that people must choose to do a right thing because it is right and not because it’s enjoyable or someone told you to . If I did a right thing and reported my coworker, I would not be happy about having to work many overtime hours, having to figure everything out on my own and feeling guilty. Moral duty represents objective, absolute and universal behaviors that everyone respects and applies to everyone, everywhere and always . There is objective, absolute and universal conduct that is set by the bank. There are also many people that do not follow it. In my situation, neither I or my coworker followed objective, absolute and universal conduct that was set by the bank. Maxim is a general truth or rule of conduct . According to Kant, there are two categories of actions, hypothetical imperatives and categorical imperatives. Hypothetical imperatives apply to people who want to achieve the goal they have . My decision helped me achieve my goals. Categorical imperatives tell us what to do regardless of our wishes or desires .Since I did not report my coworker and stayed quiet, I did not do what I was supposed to do regardless of my wishes or desires. Other strength of deontological
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher, deontologist and non-consequentialist. Kant believed that happiness should not be the goal; performing one’s duty should be the goal . My action resulted in happiness of few people, but it was wrong to act so. There are duties to and duties to not in our society. My duty and obligation in current situation was to report my coworker to HR no matter what would be the consequences and how many people would end up unhappy, which I decided not to do. There are Three Central Kantian concepts, Good Will, Moral Duty, & Maxims. Good will concept states that people must choose to do a right thing because it is right and not because it’s enjoyable or someone told you to . If I did a right thing and reported my coworker, I would not be happy about having to work many overtime hours, having to figure everything out on my own and feeling guilty. Moral duty represents objective, absolute and universal behaviors that everyone respects and applies to everyone, everywhere and always . There is objective, absolute and universal conduct that is set by the bank. There are also many people that do not follow it. In my situation, neither I or my coworker followed objective, absolute and universal conduct that was set by the bank. Maxim is a general truth or rule of conduct . According to Kant, there are two categories of actions, hypothetical imperatives and categorical imperatives. Hypothetical imperatives apply to people who want to achieve the goal they have . My decision helped me achieve my goals. Categorical imperatives tell us what to do regardless of our wishes or desires .Since I did not report my coworker and stayed quiet, I did not do what I was supposed to do regardless of my wishes or desires. Other strength of deontological