Immanuel Kant

system and they use it in whatever way that would benefit their personal motives. Deontology is an ethical belief that uses a set of moral rules to choose right and wrong actions. The idea of Deontology was introduced by a famous philosopher named Immanuel Kant. He believed that there are universal moral laws that govern morality such as deceiving someone in dishonorable ways; lying, stealing and cheating etc. Deontology is a simple ethical principle unlike other complex ones since it is very…

Throughout human history, different era’s have developed among societies, progressing mankind towards what it currently is today. Characterized by their many different newfound ideologies, these era’s show growth in the ability to think, act, and feel both as an individual, and also as a society. Topics such as religion, government, the economy, and philosophy were all stated, contested, and then evolved repeatedly, defining what people were like all throughout the different time periods. Two…

Central America, in September1993, glue was still on sale for industrial use. One of the Kantian categorical imperatives is ‘Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only’. Kant maintained that each individual has a worth or a dignity that must be respected. This dignity makes it wrong for others to abuse somebody or use somebody against his will. To treat a person as a mere means is to use a person to advance one’s…

Immanuel Kant, and his Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787) sparked a new movement among many European philosophers, known as the age of German Idealism. Names such as Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel are all in the realm of German Idealism, each bringing their own ideas to complete the system of philosophy itself, and specifically destroy, defend, or further develop the concept of human rationalism. There is an agglomeration of world-renowned philosophers in the era of German Idealism, but this…

To be moral is an act of humanity, and thus the action of being able to make free and righteous choices is what distinguishes humanity as a species. In the words of philosopher Immanuel Kant, “Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness”. In short, morality is a choice which promotes human flourishing. However, issues of morality arise when we are confronted with a choice between opposing goods, and it is unclear which choice…

This idea becomes clearer in Stanley Benn’s essay, “Privacy, Freedom, and Respect for Persons,” where he considers the value of privacy. Like Immanuel Kant, Benn develops a non-consequentialist argument: it is not the consequence of our actions, but rather the goodness of the act in itself that is significant. Benn looks at this in the context of privacy, attempting to show that “some minimal right to immunity from observation and reporting is required by certain basic features of our conception…

It 's that time of year: holiday gatherings and the related stresses that are inevitably involved. We see people who we love, and people we may not like so much. There are people who we see only once a year for a reason. Although it was frequently an unpleasant occasion, for many years I attended a Thanksgiving gathering with my father’s side of the family for the sake of my father, an aunt, and my grandmother. These three loved ones are no longer living and it has been a surprise that my…

Sometimes, making decisions becomes difficult especially when multiple people are at stake. Lauren, a librarian at Wentern Public Library knows this all to well. One day, while working she was approached by David, a patron who was looking for internet links on the water supply. He continually made Lauren uneasy because David was nervous, flustered, and acting suspicious. He asked Lauren for sources on chemicals in water and the public water system. She feels she should possibly alert authorities…

we ought to do, or what we must do, is determined by morality which employs us to fulfill duties that otherwise would be wrong not to fulfill. But in Immanuel Kant’s Chapter Two of the “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, he argues the existence of autonomy and how we can choose for ourselves what we ought to do that is vital for morality. Kant claims, “The word ‘respect’ is the only suitable expression for the esteem that a rational being must necessarily feel for such lawgiving.…

branch in philosophy, in a boarder sense reflects mankind’s ability in applying reason and regulating their actions for the greater good.It is their moral campus which allows them to be ‘good’ while preventing ‘evil' from prevailing. Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill provide the pillars for what constitutes the discussion of Ethics in philosophy. However, since I am dealing with a case within a realm of science, I am using Søren Kierkegaard's application of Ethics in The Concept of…