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Kant
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- 1DeontologyPeople doing their duty which is objecitve and absolute.
Non-Teleological- Doesnt focus on the end result.
Kant-need to use our God given reason in order to apply CI
Enlightment, forefront thinkers, promoting self-determination and taking responsbility
God-given rationality developing - 2Kant's TheoryA priori synthetic means it must follow logically necessary statements to reach a logically necessary conclusion.
Using God-given reason to find out their duties and see whether they are morally right.
Autonomy people have the right to make their own decisions and govern their own lives.
Freedom is the ability of the will to be governed by reason as opposed to the laws of chemistry and physics - 3First Part of CIUniversalisable
"so act as if every action would be universalised into a moral law"
E.G. Promises
Person cannot keep their promise it cannot be universalised as it would be a contradiction of the person's will.
Concept of making prmoises would be made redundant wouldnt know if people were being honest.
Moral law if applied to everyone without any form of contradiction; person's will or nature. - 4Second Part: CITreating people as ends rather than means.
E.G. Sexual Ethics
Sex is degradingfor people and is using a person as a means rather than as an end.
Treating a person as a thing or an object.
Sex within marriage is acceptable as there is a mutual bond and people are treated as equals. - 5Third Part: CIKingdom of Ends.
Humans are created and treated equally.
E.G. Many who does not want to help others.
Man is treating people equally or as rational members in the kingdom of ends.
God-given reason and we should treat others as we would want to be treated.
Free beings have the right to make our own choices and decisions, making the right ones determines whether we are rational, good or moral beings. - 61st AO2 ParagraphConflicting duties- if you have more than one duty there is no hierachy to decide which one should follow.
Duty to protect someone but also not to lie which one should be prioritised.
W.D.Ross- prima facia duties are non-absolute which can be over-ridden by compelling duties.
Conflict between prima facia duties, no hierachy to decide which one people should obey. Still conflicting duties. - 7JusticeProtect the innocent- we need to have rightful suspicion of certain indviduals.
Does not sacrifice the minority to the majority
Utilitarianism focuses on the "greatest good for the greatest number". Minority important to Kant.
Benefit may prove a signal benefit in terms of the stance on justice.
Ignore emotions play a large part of our decision making. Struggle to remove emotions. Difficult to apply in real world , theory protecting minority cannot apply in real world. - 83rd paragraph (Korsgard)Applying 3rd part: Kingdom of Ends.
E.G. Police Force, impossible to treat all people as equal thinkers as if they all were, there would be no criminals or arrests as we would presume that all people would do the right moral thing.
Provides clear guidelines for those who are unable/ unsure on what to do. Applied to all people. Absolutist theory and so it cannot be changed. People may need absolute guidelines..
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