Immanuel Kant

hitting human flesh, you would choose to eat the food. Therefore, in non-consequentialism, there a no effective hard or fast rules or guidelines that govern ethical behavior. Deontological ethics is also a form of non-consequentialism theory by Immanuel Kant which says: we have a duty of things that we are suppose to and not suppose to do. But doing the right thing may not always lead to right or increase of…

In this paper I will use the views and theories of Ayn Rand on altruism, James Rachels’ view psychological egoism and Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative in order to propose a moral theory on how we ought to behave both individually and as a society. As a frame of reference, I will first present a case on why psychological egoism applies to humans which will tie in with both individual and global morality. In the same way, I will state reasons why I believe Rand was precise in pointing out…

true (Kemerling, 2011). That means, everyone who participates will always act according to that same rule or will receive the same outcome. Instead of focusing on what God wants his people to do for His love, Kant focused primarily on the categorical imperatives to guides a person’s morality. Kant recants the idea from non-Christians that Christianity as a whole is morally harmful because of its constant accusations that it is the reason behind why the world is in disarray because it is not true…

The principle that all events, including human actions or the environmental changes are ultimately determined by the causes regarded as external to the wheel and nothing is predetermined. Based on the assumptions which are constrained contradicts the idea of empowerment and minimizes the importance of human action and decision making, because a person is morally responsible for his conduct. Determinism is the modern name coined in the nineteenth century instead of Democritus, similarly the…

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Section One The moral question asked on p. 11 of Alexander George’s What Should I Do? comes from the point of view of a mistress who is having an affair with her married co-worker. She states, “I am having an affair with a married man who is my co-worker. I did not begin the affair; he pursued me. His wife does not know. I feel guilty about it, but at this point I am in love with him. He says that he loves me, but that he also loves his wife, because – although she is abusive and he feels no…

Immanuel Kant can be associated with the view that “people are only blameworthy for things that are under their control,” (this statement will be referred to as the ‘condition of control’) and Thomas Nagel was one who disagreed with this view. Nagel expressed…

Philosophy Essay 1 The origin of morality has been a topic of interest among philosophers around the world for what seems like generations. Along with morality come different forms of interpretation, two, in particular, are utilitarianism and absolutism (also known as deontology). Morality can be defined as, “What makes right acts right, and as an extension of that, what makes wrong acts wrong” (Green, 67). What seems like such a simple and straightforward definition has been interpreted a…

The purpose of the essay is to determine whether "the end justifies the mean" throughout Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince". With Machiavelli's principles in mind, it seems that we are faced with an issue regarding whether the desired ends can be justified by the means and if we use these potential principles as a way to achieve things we desire in life. The question whether the end justifies the means depends on the type of goal or outcome an individual wants to accomplish and the means that…

argued over by many esteemed philosophers. But is it true? If it is, then sexual desire of any sort would be morally wrong, along with sexual activity itself. For, if we objectify another person, we are viewing them as a mere means, going against Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative, which states that we must “‘always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end’” (Mappes, 229). Sexual desire,…