Kantian Ethics
Mind map on all the things we have so far done on Kantian ethics.
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- Created on: 21-01-13 20:00
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- Immanuel Kant
- Imperatives
- Categorical
- KANT'S VIEW
- What it commands is accepted as intrinsically good.
- Consideration not given to the consequences of the action.
- Imperative of Morality
- Emphasis on universability - laws which have moral worth
- Consistency
- Inconsistency is irrational
- 'Whether I can will that it become a 'law of nature'
- Consistency
- Contraditradictions
- ....in the law of nature.
- Cannot be univerval laws as they are contradictory in themsleves in a straight forward way.
- E.g. 'Only keep promises when it is in your interest to do so.'
- ...in the will.
- Not contradictory in themselves, but the person involved could not wish them to be universalised.
- E.g. 'Only recieve help never give it'
- ....in the law of nature.
- Kant's categorical imperatives
- 1. Act only on maxims which can be universalised.
- Treat human beings as ends in themselves -never as a means to an end.
- Always act as though you are a legislator in the universal kingdom of ends.
- Hypothetical
- doing something to achieve another end
- tells us what actions would be good solely as a means to something else.
- tells us what actions would be good solely as a means to something else.
- doing something to achieve another end
- An imperative tells a person which of their possible actions would be 'good'
- Categorical
- Summum Bonum
- Kant's ultimate happiness
- Hypothetical imperative
- However we aren't meant to follow these according to Kant. Therefore there is a FLAW IN THE PLAN!!!
- Kant postulates that there must be a God as we must try to achieve a higher good.
- This is because there are irrational thingsin the world: hypothetical imperative.
- However we aren't meant to follow these according to Kant. Therefore there is a FLAW IN THE PLAN!!!
- Hypothetical imperative
- This is because there are irrational thingsin the world: hypothetical imperative.
- Deontological
- Kant rejects teleology
- He believes that good will is not derived from the results of an action.
- Absolutist
- Kant rejects subjectivity believing instead that morality should be universal.
- Kant rejects teleology
- Kant believes that our knowledge is how the world is percieved by humans not how it is in reality.
- PLATO!
- Metaphysics
- Phenomenal realm
- Kant believes that our knowledge is how the world is percieved by humans not how it is in reality.
- PLATO!
- Animalisitic desires
- HUMANS
- Treat human beings as ends in themselves -never as a means to an end.
- They have their own intrinsic value and dignity.
- The 'agents' of morality
- autonomous
- Kant's categorical imperatives
- 1. Act only on maxims which can be universalised.
- Always act as though you are a legislator in the universal kingdom of ends.
- Act in accordance to empiricist values of cause and effect.
- changing and transient
- Causally determinded
- Act in accordance to empiricist values of cause and effect.
- Kant believes that our knowledge is how the world is percieved by humans not how it is in reality.
- The Noumenal realm
- Reason
- Gods and angels (made of only reason)
- The Noumenal realm
- Reason
- Gods and angels (made of only reason)
- Gods and angels (made of only reason)
- HUMANS
- They have their own intrinsic value and dignity.
- The 'agents' of morality
- autonomous
- a priori
- Comes from thinking about it as opposed to sensing it is wrong or right.
- Human will
- good will
- Duty for duty's sake
- Free Will
- autonomy
- good will
- Duty for duty's sake
- Free Will
- autonomy
- Free Will
- Duty for duty's sake
- Free Will
- Duty for duty's sake
- good will
- separate from the rules of cause and effect.
- unchanging and constant
- Reason
- The Noumenal realm
- Gods and angels (made of only reason)
- a priori
- Comes from thinking about it as opposed to sensing it is wrong or right.
- Human will
- separate from the rules of cause and effect.
- unchanging and constant
- Reason
- Phenomenal realm
- Imperatives
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