Moral Argument
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- Created on: 02-01-13 12:41
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- Moral Argument
- Kant
- Regardless of culture or time, there is an objective moral law within us that everyone is aware about
- CATEGORICAL IMPERITIVE = making a moral decision from a sense of duty
- Duty is doing a good thing for no other reason than duty [virtuous action]
- Virtuous actions should be rewarded with happiness BUT this is not always the case
- This leads us to believe if virtue is not rewarded in this life there must be an afterlife
- This is what Kant calls the 'summum bonum' [highest good]
- This leads us to believe if virtue is not rewarded in this life there must be an afterlife
- 3 postulates of morality = FREEDOM [an action is moral if we are free to do it], IMMORTALITY [actions arent always rewarded in happiness so must be fulfilled in afterlife], GOD [if there is an afterlife, there must be a God to reward us
- Freud [criticism]
- This conscience described by Kant is the result of the SUPER-EGO for Freud
- SUPER-EGO = subconscious set of moral controls given to us by outside influences
- EGO = the conscious self, the personality that everyone sees
- ID = primitive mind that creates all wants and feelings
- Moral values are not objective but come from the super-ego = kants argument would fail
- The conscience is a psychological development that results from the oediplus complex [desires for parent]
- This conscience described by Kant is the result of the SUPER-EGO for Freud
- It is important to realise that Kant never put his argument as a free-standing argument, as God could only be proved through faith
- Kant
- This conscience described by Kant is the result of the SUPER-EGO for Freud
- SUPER-EGO = subconscious set of moral controls given to us by outside influences
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