Immanuel Kant believes that we should do our duty in order to become morally good. His view says that it is not morally good to act because of our emotions. For Kant, being moral is a result of being rational. Whatever it is that we cannot rationalize cannot be morally good. Period. This philosophy seems so strict, like the way Kant lived his life, everything was predictable and according to set standards. In modern times, doing this purely out of “duty” may no longer be the best guiding rule. As stated in The Fundamentals of Ethics, “Kant regarded many of the basic moral rules as absolute, and so insisted that it was never acceptable to break them- even if breaking them led to better results.” But what if it’s a matter of life and death?
