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Immanuel Kant
The Categorical Imperative
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Immanuel Kant 1724-1804
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Kantian Ethics:The Basics
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Kantian Ethics: The Basics
Kant’s approach is Deontological. This meansthat for Kant, the right or wrongness of the actionis in the action itself, and not in itsconsequences.
Kant is a rationalist. He believes that reason isthe means by which we can analyse the world.
Kant sets out his ideas in his book “Grounding forthe Metaphysics of Morals”, and discusses itfurther in his “Critique of Practical Reason”
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Duty
The only thing, Kant says, which is good in and ofitself is what he calls a Good Will.
The Good Will is a sense of duty we have to dothe right thing.
He believed that “all rational beings” have theduty to behave morally.
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Categorical and Hypothetical
Kant says that morality is a “categorical imperitive”He contrasts this with it being “hypothetical
imperitive”
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Categorical/Hypothetical
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The Difference?
A hypothetical imperative is,according to Kant, somethingthat I must do if I want acertain thing to happen.
A categorical imperative is,according to Kant, somethingthat I must always obey.
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Kantian Ethics:
Are founded on the categorical imperative. His morals are based ona sense of duty.
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The CategoricalImperitive
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The Categorical Imperative
There are three ways that Kant formulates thecategorical imperitive:
One should act in such a way that one could willit that one’s action should become a universal law.
One should always act in such a way as to treatfellow beings as an end in themselves and not ameans to achieving an end.
One should act as though you were a legislator inthe “kingdom of ends”.
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One should act in sucha way that one could
will it that one’saction should become
a universal law.
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One should always actin such a way as to
treat fellow beings asan end in themselvesand not a means toachieving an end.
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One should act asthough one were a
legislator in the“kingdom of ends”.
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Duty
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Good Will
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HypotheticalImperative
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Categorical Imperative
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Universal Law
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Rational
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An end in itself
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Legislator in the“kingdom of ends”