Deontological ethics

“Law is reason free from passion” Aristotle. He has been a philosopher I have build much of my life around, however I do not fall within his ethics as a lifestyle. I strive to ensure rules and regulations are followed strictly and precisely. I had lost much of my passion for life. I joined the United States Army at the age of 17, just months after September 11, 2011. My family tradition to uphold our great nation 's lifestyle was my only concern. Raising my right hand to say those words, “I,…

years. They ultimate happiness for the family in distress would be that their relative gains mobility and cognitive ability, however the decision that has to be made it not driven at all by the happiness of the agent in this situation. Kant’s deontological theory is centralized around actions being acted only out of obligation for the universal duty. We saw in the example with Jim and the Indians, there is not universal duty in killing one human being to save another. However, if we were…

In Immanuel Kant’s “Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals” he was trying to persuade us to understand how to construct the nature of the human mind and its universal laws of ethics. Kant wrote this book basically to explain the rules of justice and how can the human mind be virtuous. He helps us to understand the morality of your individual human rights as well as justice. Rights are enforceable good claims against others, so in expressing that others have a commitment to regard my rights we…

survive, thus we adopt new ideologies and practices that help us interpret our daily realities. These contemporary systems root their ethics in natural law which focuses on human behaviour, the government and international affairs. Some nonreligious philosophies that have become popular include; secular humanism, communism, human…

Utilitarianism and deontological theory have their similarities and differences in the philosophical world. The greatest happiness principle, used by utilitarianism, is that an act is right as far as it tends to produce the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people. Happiness is equal to the pleasure and the absence of pain. Bentham’s idea of pleasure falls under three points; intensity (how strong), duration (how long lasting), and the propinquity (how soon). Later Mill’s added to…

abstract and unconditioned will that is revealed to it by others who are its impersonal bearers, is duty, that absolute obligation each one of us can demand from others…(Starte 1992: 267) Starte does not deem that the categorical imperative or the ethics of duty are an accurate…

After laying out his most widely known iteration of the categorical imperative, [“Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law” (Kant 37)], Kant establishes some universal laws that follow from it. In light of his previous discussion of the importance of good will—namely that a good will is the only thing good without limitation, Kant additionally considers the relationship between our will and the universal laws that spring…

Kantianism is an obligation-based theory developed by Immanuel Kant. He did not believe that moral truths should be based on one’s religion or culture. He created a theory he believed would be applicable and followed universally. Kant believed that individuals should be morally obligated to do something because it based on reason and not desires. Stealing and deceiving others is wrong universally, therefore any act where one chooses not to deceive others is done so because it is morally required…

The last philosopher is Christine Korsgaard, whose argument is mixed with Plato and Immanuel Kant. Both Plato and Kant point out that reason should have the last word in order for a person to be unified with their wills. In “Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant”, by Christine Korsgaard, Kant's categorical model explains people's internal and external forces form inclinations, or our desires. He also says that humans must follow their own laws to be free, "But Mahida 5 Kant claims…

This paper will discuss the differences between Kant’s Categorical Imperative, the Golden Rule, and the Silver Rule. I will begin by introducing the definition of Kant’s categorical imperative along with the three formulations that it consists of. This will be followed by an explanation of the golden and silver rule, in addition to how the origins are steeply in connect with religion. As a final point I will discuss the juxtaposition between Kant’s categorical imperative, the golden rule and…