Deontological ethics

Kant’s conception of duty, as focused on in the ground work Metaphysics of Morals, enlightens us about the morality of the black lives matter movement. However, the concept of duty can be abstract based on apriori ideas. So we need to follow Kant, by creating a maxim and testing that maxim in the context of the categorical empirical. Racial profiling by law enforcement Nationwide is wrong and our maxim must guard against such immorality. Therefore, to uphold the universal human rights,…

(1) Immanuel Kant’s main purpose in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is to identify and examine the principle of morality. To be moral, we must make moral decisions using our own reason. An act isn’t ethical if it’s done with ulterior motives in mind (2) The key question Immanuel kant is addressing is, what we want to do isn’t what we ought to do. Kant analyzes the idea of duty to reveal a fundamental moral principle. Would you want people to act like you? Did you do the right thing…

always be true if there is another conflict at cost. Because people do not agree that a prima facie is making the most for the majority of people affected, it is best to look at a conflict from the utilitarian and deontological perspective. Using both the utilitarian and deontological perspective is called the prima facie…

1. If the owner of an apartment complex that caters to KU students offered to make a $10,000 dollar contribution to the Lawrence suicide hotline, if I reduced the number of parking places and benefit the KU bus line the effects could range from very small to very large. If I give into the owner of the apartment complex the suicide hotline has more money and could save more lives. However the students would loose their parking spaces and the apartment complex would become more appealing to them…

The social contract theory, as an ethical theory, requests all individuals live in society to implicitly reach an agreement to abide by moral rules established to govern relations among citizens while a government is capable of enforcing these rules. What’s more, these rules ought to be collectively agreed to accept by rational people for their mutual benefit. On the condition that others are supposed to follow these rules as well. Besides these rules, John Rawls’s Principles of Justice is also…

Lying is a common occurrence for most people, whether the lies are large or small. The immediate thought of someone telling a lie disgusts the majority of people. Nevertheless, lying has numerous synonyms that can change people’s opinions regarding whether or not a lie is acceptable. The Merriam Webster Thesaurus provides the following synonyms for the word “lie:” fable, fairy tale, perjury, fib, story, tale, exaggeration, falsification, bluff, or ambiguity, along with numerous other words.…

My purpose in this essay is to explain and evaluate the first formulation of the Categorical Imperative. According to this formulation, whenever someone considers performing an action, it must be something that they would will or accept that all others do. While this formulation does have its advantages, such as that it provides justice for everyone, overall, I do not find this formulation plausible. Since every situation is different, it makes it hard to have universal rules. The Categorical…

valuable. This paper supports Harriet’s decision by using Kantian ethics such as Kant’s theory on moral praise, Kant’s theory on imperfect duties, and finally by Kant’s formulation analysis of a categorical imperative. I will use Kantian ethics to support why Harriet deserves moral praise. After supporting why Harriet deserves moral praise I will briefly discuss the arguments against why Harriet does not deserve moral praise under Kantian ethics. Kant’s Theory of Moral Praise The first reason…

According to Immanuel Kant, “All the objects of inclination have only a conditioned value; for if there were not these inclinations and the needs grounded on them, their objects would be valueless. Inclinations themselves, as sources of needs, are so far from having an absolute value to make them desirable for their own sake that it must rather be the universal wish of every rational being to be wholly free from them. Kant states humans are rational beings or agents, so therefore they also have…

“Kant holds that the fundamental principle of our moral duties is a categorical imperative” (Johnson & Cureton, 2018). Simply, categorical imperatives are actions that people choose to do or not do based solely on their morals. Whereas, “Hypothetical imperatives tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal” (Holt, 2009). For example, when people use an if/then scenario to arrive at a specific conclusion in order to accomplish a desired effect. In addition, Jeremy Schwartz published…