Identifying Different Views of Morality
Raymond Vuong
150899950
Lindsay Hachey (A5)
Values & Society
PP 110 Immanuel Kant first began his philosophical journey as a follower to rationalism, which is anything based off of reasoning or knowledge justifying or backing up an idea or developing a theory. Later on throughout his career, he dropped his beliefs in rationalism after 10 years of effort and thought into rationalism and came to take in the view of metaphysics. He had multiple reasons into metaphysics that he encountered throughout his life and experiences. Metaphysics is practically the very base of philosophy or also known as the first principles of philosophy which analyzes abstract concepts of life such as meaning, …show more content…
“Kant argues, that what gives a particular action moral worth is not the kind of action it is, nor the consequences of the action is performed by the psychological maxim motivating that action.”(Bailey, pg. 54) Kant believed that whatever action you do, no matter what your intentions may be in the beginning, and if it is something you would consider moral, it has no moral worth. Kant …show more content…
To begin, I don’t agree with Kant’s universalizability theory because it has too strict of a ruling. To rely on other peoples’ mentality in order to judge a person’s morality doesn’t seem right. For an example if everyone has the same mentality and they all believed in murder as a solution to certain problems that would be considered moral under the universalizability theory. But we all know through our own morals and beliefs that murder is wrong and shouldn’t be done at any cost. This is where his theory of the principle for respect for persons comes in. I believe that this theory is probably the most moral thing a person can do is to be unselfish and to be able to gain happiness through treating everyone like they mean
Raymond Vuong
150899950
Lindsay Hachey (A5)
Values & Society
PP 110 Immanuel Kant first began his philosophical journey as a follower to rationalism, which is anything based off of reasoning or knowledge justifying or backing up an idea or developing a theory. Later on throughout his career, he dropped his beliefs in rationalism after 10 years of effort and thought into rationalism and came to take in the view of metaphysics. He had multiple reasons into metaphysics that he encountered throughout his life and experiences. Metaphysics is practically the very base of philosophy or also known as the first principles of philosophy which analyzes abstract concepts of life such as meaning, …show more content…
“Kant argues, that what gives a particular action moral worth is not the kind of action it is, nor the consequences of the action is performed by the psychological maxim motivating that action.”(Bailey, pg. 54) Kant believed that whatever action you do, no matter what your intentions may be in the beginning, and if it is something you would consider moral, it has no moral worth. Kant …show more content…
To begin, I don’t agree with Kant’s universalizability theory because it has too strict of a ruling. To rely on other peoples’ mentality in order to judge a person’s morality doesn’t seem right. For an example if everyone has the same mentality and they all believed in murder as a solution to certain problems that would be considered moral under the universalizability theory. But we all know through our own morals and beliefs that murder is wrong and shouldn’t be done at any cost. This is where his theory of the principle for respect for persons comes in. I believe that this theory is probably the most moral thing a person can do is to be unselfish and to be able to gain happiness through treating everyone like they mean