Deontological ethics

1.0 Introduction Communication refers to the process of understanding the meaning conveyed by the sender to the receiver with the purpose of the common good. This is because any communication process that does not create an understanding is not meaningful. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the communication process is not being around if it is not for the common good (Baharudin & Khairie, 2009). There are many channel to send the message such as social media. Social media is an online…

Rawls’s emphasis on the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory, his preoccupation with impartial justification and the strains of commitment, and his consecutive insistence on differentiating comprehensive and political moral doctrines all testify to his deep concern for offering a theory of justice which takes into account the constraints of real-world implementation. This concern is most clearly present in his claim to have constructed a “realistic utopia”. In his Law of Peoples,…

the result of agents acting under the moral law? Only the latter would be true to Kant’s ethics. I think Silber’s interpretation is essentially close to Kant’s perspective in so far as maxims derive from moral propriety such as self-preservation or security, rather than moral goodness. As I will precisely discuss this in section of Silber’s procedurlism(2.1.1), I argue although Silber has defended Kant’s ethics against the charge of consequentialism to some degree, he has not done so in an…

Kant's first formulation of the Categorical Imperative is that of universalizability. When someone acts, it is according to some rule, or maxim. For Kant, an act is only permissible if one is willing for the maxim that allows the action to be a universal law by which everyone acts. Maxims fail this test if they produce either a contradiction in conception or a contradiction in the will when universalized. Kant believes that all moral judgments must be universalizable. That is, if we say that…

QA: 1 A. Introduction: Kantian moral theory is one of the most importance and famous theories in our world that people should know about it. From what I had learnt, I got that Kantian moral theory has two important points, which are respecting others1 and having right intentions1 when you communicate with others or do some things. The two things are still working in the present to help to promote the whole society. Kantian moral theory is originated from a philosopher whose name is Kant1.…

Moral Reasoning Cognitive Moral Development theory was first developed by Jean Piaget in order to explain the mental processes that occur when deriving meaning from experience. From this theory. Lawrence Kohlberg developed the hypothesis that the higher the moral reasoning, the higher the ethical decision. Moral intent, also referred to as moral reasoning (Hunt & Vitell, 1986), is derived from an individual’s values. It most often comes from religious studies, individual thought or…

David Hume is concerned with the role of reason which it plays in action and belief in human life throughout his philosophy. Hume simply argues that neither our belief nor actions are determined by reason: in his works he inspects the role of reason in human life. “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them” . Hume’s principle is that reason is subordinate to passions. Hume presupposes that the faculty of reason…

Rhetorical Analysis Rhetorical analysis on Changing your Mind Jahbreia M. Valcourt Summary In Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Happiness Hypothesis (2006), he offers up an explanation of how we percieve situations and why. He uses examples of experiments on, affective priming, bias, and genetics, which will be discussed later in the chapter, and how he believes they effect where on the like-o-meter,an internal gauge that tells us whether or not we like something automatically( P. 26), things…

In Immanuel Kant's moral theory, the consequences of an action do not determine its morality, but rather it is the intentionality and sense of duty that is felt before an action is done which determines a good moral conscience. Kant introduces this process of classifying what is moral through the categorical imperative which calls people to, “act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that is should become a universal law” meaning that one ought to only act according to…

Even though Harman provides a plethora of moral diversity examples to support his defense on moral relativism, a mistake already persists in his claim for defending it. Harman claims that all moral right and wrong are always relative to a choice of moral framework. This claim proposes an absolute moral standard. It is illogical for one to propose a relativist’s claim by using an absolute moral standard. Therefore, the relativist’s claim is illogical. To add on to this argument for endorsing an…