Immanuel Kant

In the ethical dilemma, “The Disappearing Degree,” a case study provided by the Institute for Global Ethics, the protagonist Connie, is head of a foundation and is one of a seven-member committee that funds arts programs and who is in the process of initiating the hiring of an important position of artists-in-residence for middle schools. After reviewing a résumé, that has also been submitted along with others to the remaining members of the committee, that belongs a well-known painter in the…

Baby Gone is about a little girl who has been abducted. One of the moral dilemmas that happens during the content of the film are the issues associated with duty and reason. According to the book Ethical Choices by Richard Burner and Yvonne Raley, Immanuel Kant’s theory “maintains that reason generates moral principles, his theory reflects the assumptions of rationalism” (Burner and Raley, 156). In this motion picture, Patrick Kenzie is one of the criminologists that gets hired by Helene, who…

In A Hebraic Obsession, Mort Laitner invites reader’s on a journey from his childhood to adulthood. The book focuses on his father’s experience during the Holocaust, and how an event that occurred years before the author’s birth, had a major impact on his childhood. I recommend this book to readers because it’s educational and filled with information about historical figures and events that occurred during the Holocaust. The reader gets a vivid picture from detailed descriptions given by the…

aware that at the end of the day he will come face to face with his creator and will be expected to give an account of his life on earth. God is a necessity for morality. Immanuel Kant in his ethical works affirms that morality requires God, for without God nothing really matters. (ethicalrealism.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/kants-argument-for-faith-in-god/). God becomes the basis for moral behaviour and without God everything becomes permissible. Without an absolute standard, morality would be…

greatest happiness or the best consequence for the greatest number of people and it justifies any actions we do to achieve our goals.” Conversely, Kantian states that some acts can achieve favorable outcomes despite the acts themselves were morally wrong. Kant tells us that it doesn’t matter, we should go ahead and do our best to achieve our goals in life, regardless if we fail or succeed once we had good intentions to do the right thing from the beginning. “All the interests of my reason,…

It is always a tragedy when a loved one passes. To add to the heartbreak, there are many difficult decisions that the family must make. These decisions can be a lot easier if your loved ones talk to you before they pass on what their wishes are, or so you’d think. The Briggs family is faced with a difficult decision to make when their Grandpa Joe passes. Grandpa Joe has entrusted the decisions of his funeral to his daughter Judith. He told her that he wishes to be buried in a casket with a large…

without universal or general rules, one can argue that a particularist way of thinking abandons objectivity since there are no universal or general rules associated with moral particularism. One can argue this idea because of the argument that Immanuel Kant makes when he states that if you obey the principle of universalizability which says that an act is morally acceptable if and only if its maxim is universalizable, then you act morally (Shafer-Landau, Russ: Ch. 11). Kant’s argument about the…

UTILITARIANISM: According to John Stuart Mill, the doctrine of Utilitarianism is that happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being desirable as means to that end. In applying Utilitarianism to ethical dilemmas, it is important to assess the issue by discerning it as right or wrong based on the virtue of the dilemma’s consequences. With the consequences assessed, the amount of happiness and unhappiness is the only thing relevant to the consequences. It…

This means that I must adhere to both the hypothetical imperative in respects to ethical behavior; however, when administering the law, I have to take into consideration what Kant refers to as the categorical imperative wherein I make decisions without thinking about the consequences or the impact that it may have on the respondent. For example, if a person is arrested for driving under the influence and at the hearing, the…

1. Has information technology created any new ethical opportunities? Yes, information technology has created ethical opportunities. One of such is Sweetie created by Terre des Hommes Netherlands. It is used by the organization to notify the public about how frequently the children in rural countries are being victimized. The group claimed that it has turned over the identities of the perpetrators willing to pay for sex with Sweetie over to the law. Consider each of the “candidate ethical…