duty ethics
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Duty EthicsImmanuel Kant
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Kant’s ethics were different
Consequences did not matter
Non-consequentalist or deontological
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Categorical Imperative
“Act only on the maxim (principle or rule) whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a
universal law.”
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Should you take coral from the reef?
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Should you always tell the truth?
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Should you always tell the truth?
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Do you have a moral duty to tell the truth even if leads to bad consequences?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh6NzOHOU8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAE7uOO_4v4
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Categorical Imperative #2
“Act in such as way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end and never as a means.”
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What does it mean to treat someone as an end, not as a means?
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