Ethics In Immanuel Kant's Ethical Analysis

To begin with, when there is any controversial issue, it is important to take perspectives from the scholars of the past, and to learn about what they have to offer. For obvious reasons, it isn 't possible to get their opinions on the specific issues. But it is possible to use their doctrines that they wrote about and apply them to the real world scenarios in question. The conflict that recently caught the media’s attention is about CEO Martin Shkreli. To be more specific the questions: “is what he is doing fair? Should he do it? And how does it reflect his character?” Are all easily more definable because of the input given from previous philosophers; and how they can be applied to other real world issues of the past, which was all represented in Justice by Sandel.
For one thing, pharmaceutical companies have been taking advantage of the sick for far too long. There are more cases just like this one happening all the time. If you look at the prices of prescription …show more content…
One of Kant 's major questions regarding human ethics is “does my action respect the goals of human beings rather than merely using them for my own purposes?” (csus.edu) The short answer to that question is, no. Shkreli’s actions of raising Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill does not respect the goals of mankind. What he is doing doesn 't benefit, or improve mankind. The only people benefiting from this price gouging are the people of Turing Pharmaceuticals. The rest of America is suffering, even though only a small number of people actually use this medication; it is setting a precedent throughout the rest of the nation that behavior like this is being tolerated. What he is doing is purely for his own purpose and not for anyone else 's. According to Kant, if the answer to the question aforementioned is “no”, then the person should not carry about the action in