Kant

Kant

1. Good Will

   • Will that follows moral laws

2. How do we discover Moral Laws?

   • REASON
     • Faculty that enables us to discover the idea of Duty

3. Duty:

   • Universal Moral Laws

4. Consequences or effects are not important when evaluating if something is ethically good...

5. The Formula of the Universal Law

   • Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it becomes a universal law

6. The Humanity Formula

   • «So act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.

7. Example of Maxim

   • When any rational being is in deep pain, it should suicide for self- interest!