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Sense Of Duty Kant
3,239 words? The only acceptable motive for a moral action is that it should be done as a sense of moral duty. ? Is this a justifiable claim? Before it is possible to analyse whether the statement, ? The only acceptable motive for a moral action is that it should be done as a sense of moral duty, ? is a justifiable claim we must consider what ones moral duty is and if is it dependant or independent on the consequence of its action? For example we could state ones moral duty is never to lie. It is popularly...
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Law Of Nature Categorical Imperative
1,607 wordsMeets Patel Philosophy Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant is one of the most influential philosophers in the history of western philosophy. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics have had a profound impact on almost every philosophical movement that followed him. Immanuel Kant s moral philosophy centers around the notion of the good will. Kant believes the good will is the faculty of acting according to a conception of law. He believes we control however, what is the wil...
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Imperative Which Dictates Set Of Rules
771 wordsKant s Ethics In the Metaphysics of Ethics (1797) Kant described his ethical system, which is based on a belief that the reason is the final authority for morality. Actions of any sort, he believed, must be undertaken from a sense of duty dictated by reason, and no action performed for expediency or solely in obedience to law or custom can be regarded as moral. Kant described two types of commands given by reason. The first was hypothetical imperative, which dictates a given course of action to ...
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