Immanuel Kant

to know what is right and wrong we must use reason. Morality, to Kant, was a constant; it stayed the same regardless of what religious background a person had. Kant’s deontological ethics stated different types of imperatives, hypothetical imperatives and categorical imperatives. Hypothetical imperatives are not moral choices, it is the times we choose to do something because we want it. For instance, I work because I want money. Kant, however, focused mainly on categorical imperatives to…

Ethics there are many ethical theories including Kantianism and Utilitarianism. Immanuel Kant believes in Kantianism, which is where the name comes from and theorists like Bentham and Mill believe in Utilitarianism. Moral theorists use their ways of thinking to aid everyday actions and situations; they even use their theories to take their side on moral issues. Kantianism is the theory began by Immanuel Kant. According to Kant, we were given reason to distinguish yourself from things and…

Prominent among these critics would be Xavier Zubiri, Immanuel Kant, and objectivist Ayn Rand. It would appear that while this is indeed a perspective worth understanding, it is entirely outdated; the utter denial of provable causation is the denial of the study of physics. Immanuel Kant, in his Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morality, discusses morals within the Categorical Imperative. Kant focuses in part on the idea of promises, and why false promises are morally wrong…

ultimately hurt themselves. In Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant describes his concept of morality. The morality of an action, he says, is contingent not on its content, but on whether it was preformed out of our duty…

Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill demonstrate two contrasting moral theories. The philosophers have very different ideas about ethics and happiness. Immanuel Kant, author of “Duty and Reason”, believed in the morality of the good will and duty. According to Kant, happiness is an emotion unable to be controlled while motive is controllable; therefore, duty is the most important aspect of leading a moral life. Conversely, John Stuart Mill, who wrote, “The Greatest Happiness Principle”, is well…

thereby making deontology the study of duty and moral obligations. Its originations come from a German philosopher named Immanuel Kant who is renowned for stating that the wrongness of an action, such as a lie, is not acceptable in any given condition. Kant is most remembered for arguing that it is always better to tell the truth, even if it leads to the death of an innocent person. Kant believed…

different approach to our moral judgments and how we should perceive them. Immanuel Kant, unlike Aristotle and Aquinas, saw duty as the foundation of reason. Kant believed that one shouldn’t only act in accordance with duty but to act for duty’s sake. Additionally, Kant says that doing the right thing is doing the thing that most people would agree with and that conformed rule will determine right or wrong. By the same token, Kant brings up the categorical imperative in which says that everyone…

Famous philosopher Immanuel Kant thought that the importance of the voice of opposition could be a turning point in more at morality and could improve a person's well-being. Human nature sometimes is inconsistent with fairness. We tried to put humanity under an umbrella of morality and it does not work for us. The Golden rule explained that we should treat others the way we would like to be treated. Usually this is how we test the universalizability of morality. The golden rule is included in…

situations exist in which torture is justifiable, depending on the circumstances. Similarly, my original opinion on torture also expressed the belief that torture may be justified in certain situations. However, throughout the semester the ideals of Immanuel Kant, and the understanding of the human right involving no torture, inhumane, or degrading treatment, have instigated a change in my beliefs. Instead, I believe that individual views can corrupt the initial motive for torture. Therefore, I…

We must consider the following thought experiment from Phillipa Foot, to fully understand the moral theories of deontology and utilitarianism through the ideas of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill: “Let us consider […] a pair of cases which I shall call Rescue I and Rescue II. In the first Rescue story we are hurrying in our jeep to save some people – let there be five of them – who are imminently threatened by the ocean tide. We have not a moment to spare, so when we hear of a single person…