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    When is lying okay? Is it always acceptable? Is it never acceptable to ‘’commit a sin’’ as german philosopher? Immanuel Kant would refer to a lie as.Your standpoint may differ from mine.I in believe lying is only permitted,when it can be used to protect and care for others or yourself. No one wants to hurt a friends feelings.The U.S. Political Campaign:Lies,Lies,Lies Excerpt feels the same.They call this type of lie the ‘’I love your dress’’ lie.It’s what the person(friend)who is being lied to wants.Also the people who wrote the excerpt believe that “most “little white lies” belong here,well-intentioned deceptions to grease the gears of society.” Another group of people who conquer with me are the people who took the poll for It’s the Truth:Americans Conflicted About Lying.Randy Cohen believes that “not only is lying justified, it is sometimes a moral duty.’’For instance, you have cancer but your partner/spouse or family doesn’t know.Then they ask ‘’how are you.’’ What do you do?You lie.Why.It’s to protect the people around you from anxiety.…

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    Immanuel Kant Morality

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    Title: Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative Immanuel Kant Student: Georgiana Puti Course: Introduction to Moral Philosophy Date: 8th November 2014 What is the connection between rationality and morality in Kant’s view? Morality and rationality is depicted by Kant as an action of dignity thus the connection between rationality and morality in Kant’s view is dignity. In the first and second paragraph I will discuss and argue what it morality and rationality and what is a moral and…

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    During the Age of Enlightenment, writers and philosophers in Western Europe published works focusing on individualism and its relation to moral philosophy. Immanuel Kant investigated principles of deontological ethics, which relate to duty and moral obligation. In Kant’s work Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals he focuses specifically on the concept of the good will. In his work the reader finds that is a multi-faceted moral concept, that lays the foundation for all of Kant’s arguments.…

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    In Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant discusses laws of nature and freedom and acting with reason versus impulse, with the implication of free will. This explication will discuss the qualifications of reason and being rational, acting in conformity of the law or with the representation of the law, and giving oneself a law with free will. These premises set by Kant lead him to conclude that only rational beings have the ability to act “in accordance with the representation of…

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    Immanuel Kant On Morality

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    decided to look towards philosophy to find some answers. I found many philosophers helped me answer my questions, but one philosopher in particular gave me some insight on morality. That philosopher’s name is Immanuel Kant. My reasons for picking Kant reflect my personal view of morality and ethics. My first reason is Kant’s idea of morality is not solely tied to religion or god. I wanted to find an answer to explain why I still had moral values, while no longer having religion in my life.…

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    Immanuel Kant Duty

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    Immanuel Kant’s Classic Work Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals “outlines a rationalist ethical system centered in the notion of the categorical imperative as the fundamental principle of action” (Pojman and Tramel 218). The excerpt we read The Foundation of Ethics focuses on what gives an action moral worth, Kant argues that only if we act out of a sense of duty do we find a true sense of moral worth. I find this claim to be a very interesting one because I have never thought about how…

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    Immanuel Kant Analysis

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    Before submitting to and praising Immanuel Kant and the somehow simple yet beautifully complex nature of his ideas, I feel compelled to first address one of the most astounding of my ‘huh’ moments. It rather shocked me to read into the depths of a man whose core beliefs align with the freedom of thought and the unlocking of one’s own understanding of oneself and one’s surrounding world without the interference of the will of others, and yet he still manages to contradict his primary stance. This…

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    Following the publication of The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant's controversial thesis of transcendental idealism was charged with being a revision of Berkeleyan idealism, a doctrine which proclaims that there are no external material bodies, and all that exists in the world are minds and ideas. Before the first and the second editions of the Critique, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics was released, in which Kant both clarifies points made in the Critique and responds this accusation…

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    Immanuel Kant believed that people should live morally and by doing so, you are acting as a role model, teaching others how to live by that as well. Then the newly educated will teach others how to live by that and so forth and so on. Kant believed that by doing good, good will come to you. For instance, the expression “opportunities will come knocking on your door.” Furthermore, by never traveling outside of a 10-mile radius, from his birthplace, Kant made himself the prime example to his…

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    believe that it should never be used. Faust’s statement is true because in the articles, “Rejecting All Lies: Immanuel Kant,” by Sissela Bok, “Teens Do their Share of Lying,” by Loretta Ragsdell, and “It’s the Truth: Americans Conflicted About Lying,” by NBCNEWS.com, there is evidence on why lying should be prohibited because it harms people, how lying hurts people’s daily lives, whether it be personal or professional, and how lying…

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