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. The categorical imperative states that you should act only on maxims that you could will that everyone also adopts. In order to do this one must 1. Produce your maxim. 2. Imagine that you’re willing makes your action a law of human behavior
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I will first produce my maxim which is lie. Now, I will imagine this as a law, and that every time someone wins an award they lie and say this line in their introductory speech. So is it contradictory? Yes, it is because saying that you weren’t sure if you were going to win is contradicting to what you were actually thinking. Since it is a law and everyone says it, it basically means that you hadn’t lied at all. Now, on to the next line, “I want to thank the other nominees for turning in such strong performances”. The maxim for this second line is lie again. Now, as a universal law, this line is contradicting as well because saying that you are thanking the other nominees for their strong performance, the audience and the nominees will know that you are lying because that is something that someone lies about when making their speech. So you would basically be revealing the truth by telling the lie. Finally, the line “I look forward to the day when one of them wins this award, which I hope will happen for each of them some day." The maxim is lying, and if considered as a law, just like the other previous lines it is also contradicting because by saying the line you show the truth, and it is like you hadn’t lied at all, the audience won’t believe what you say because they know that you
I will first produce my maxim which is lie. Now, I will imagine this as a law, and that every time someone wins an award they lie and say this line in their introductory speech. So is it contradictory? Yes, it is because saying that you weren’t sure if you were going to win is contradicting to what you were actually thinking. Since it is a law and everyone says it, it basically means that you hadn’t lied at all. Now, on to the next line, “I want to thank the other nominees for turning in such strong performances”. The maxim for this second line is lie again. Now, as a universal law, this line is contradicting as well because saying that you are thanking the other nominees for their strong performance, the audience and the nominees will know that you are lying because that is something that someone lies about when making their speech. So you would basically be revealing the truth by telling the lie. Finally, the line “I look forward to the day when one of them wins this award, which I hope will happen for each of them some day." The maxim is lying, and if considered as a law, just like the other previous lines it is also contradicting because by saying the line you show the truth, and it is like you hadn’t lied at all, the audience won’t believe what you say because they know that you