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Telling The Truth Categorical Imperative
1,544 wordsKant: Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative Immanuel Kant's philosophy frames the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative as a procedure for determining morality of actions. This method contains two vital components. First, one creates a maxim and decides whether or not the maxim can be used as a universal law for all rational beings. Then one determines whether all rational beings would want it to be the universal law. There are no exceptions if the maxim passes bo...
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Freedom Through Irrationality Ability To Be Rational Duty
971 wordsI believe rationality is incorrectly dictated by society. Generally when one is irrational he or she is contradicting the "normal" or what everyone is programmed to do. Kant says "Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law. " 1 In part I agree to the theory of universal law where "rational" is judged by universality or what everyone should do. In fact we know that primitive societies were not built on rationality. I believe that we are intrinsically rational and irrational. ...
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1,550 wordsIn his article "Cultural relativism and cultural values", Melville Herskovits defines the principle of cultural relativism as "judgements are based on experience, and experience is interpreted by each individual in terms of his own enculturation" (26). This is the basic premise of cultural relativism, that beliefs, values, and morals are all based on one's culture. Therefore, since morality is based on society and different societies have different views of right and wrong, there can be no moral...
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1,685 wordsGet Essays - Essay Search - Submit Essays - Request Essays - Essay Links - FAQ Compare Mill and Kant's ethical theories; which makes a better societal order? John Stuart Mill (1808 - 73) believed in an ethical theory known as utilitarianism. There are many formulation of this theory. One such is, "Everyone should act in such a way to bring the largest possibly balance of good over evil for everyone involved. " However, good is a relative term. What is good? Utilitarians disagreed on this subject...
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1,385 wordsDuty and Reason as the Ultimate Principle: Kant Kant claims that only actions from duty have moral worth. In other words, actions from motives other than duty deserve no positive moral evaluation. I like and agree with Kant's view because I believe that a good will makes a good person. I also believe we have all been put on this earth to do our duty. We should do our duty just for duty alone; we should not be concerned about anything else. I will begin by discussing Kant's distinction between wh...
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Mill And Ethical Theories
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Knowledge And Experience Aspects Of Human
1,497 wordsThe Categorical Imperative Applied to a False Promise In the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant seeks to establish the supreme principle of morality (Kant. 392), the categorical imperative, to act as a standard to which actions can be evaluated for their moral worth. Kant believes that actions motivated by personal experience, whether through observation, indoctrination or some other capacity, lack moral worth because such actions are not determined by the conception of moral law. Wh...
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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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Telling The Truth Categorical Imperative
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696 wordsChurch and State When I try to think of solutions to world problems in my mind I end up with a headache, in an absolute state of confusion, which brings me right back to the same problem I started out with. It is like a confusing arithmetic problem that I don? t quite understand but all many possible solutions come to my mind, but the light bulb has just not went off yet. I know it would be highly impossible trying to solve world hunger or to have word peace, but there is one world issue that I ...
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Kant Categorical Imperative Imperative Which Dictates
1,269 wordsImmanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) had an interesting ethical system for reasoning. It is based on a belief that the reason is the final authority for morality. In Kant? s eyes reason is directly correlated with morals and ideals. Actions of any sort, he believed, must be undertaken from a sense of duty dictated by reason, and no action performed for appropriateness or solely in obedience to law or custom can be regarded as moral. A moral act is an act done for the right reasons. Kant would argue that ...
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Black And White Categorical Imperative
1,209 wordsImmanuel Kant was a sound, grounded philosopher of the Enlightenment. His explanations were black and white, clear-cut, which may be seen as his greatest attribute, as well as his worst flaw. The drive behind all of Kant's ideas was reason. To Kant, morality was a matter of rational, acting morally equaled acting rationally. He challenged people to make their own ethical decisions using the power of reason instead of becoming pawns of circumstance, society, or our own emotions. Kant disregarded ...
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Cultural Evolution Cross Cultural
1,119 wordsIn the middle of this century, both biological and cultural anthropology experiences a major change in theory. In biological anthropology, biological anthropologists adopted an approach which focused on the gene. They saw the human evolution as the process of genetic adaptation to the environment. In the mean time, there were also cultural analogies to evolution. Cultural evolution also followed a process of adaptation. In the field of anthropology, a very important theory is that of the sociobi...
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Cost Benefit Analysis United States Government
1,606 wordsMorality depends on the ability of an individual to choose between good and evil, thus, entailing freedom of the will and the moral responsibility of the individual for his actions. It is obvious this is so for the individual, but what about groups and governments? Do they have the ability to choose between good and evil, do they have free will and therefore are they subject to the same paradigms of morality as the individual or does an autonomous morality apply. What if we relate this concept o...
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Put Into Practice Bhagavad Gita
4,276 wordsLife: and How to Live It If one is to believe such libertarian philosophers as Sartre who says that we, in short control our own destiny and have free will then how should people choose to carry out their lives? What are the guidelines one should follow in order to lead a complete and fulfilling life, and what should we look to achieve? Such questions are what the next group of philosophers look to answer as they discuss their different views on what we should do with our time here on earth. Phi...
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Categorical Imperative Rational Beings
1,766 wordsWhat makes an action moral? Is it the action itself or its consequences? These are questions that are not new to me, I have been asking myself that ever since I thought I knew what good is. Two separate views have been brought to my attention lately, two different philosophies, the Kantian philosophy, and the Utilitarian point of view. And the only way I could think of to decide which of the two I agree with, is to integrate each of them into an example, a situation, and see how they hold out. T...
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1,553 wordsKant: the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative Kantian philosophy outlines the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative as a method for determining morality of actions. This formula is a two part test. First, one creates a maxim and considers whether the maxim could be a universal law for all rational beings. Second, one determines whether rational beings would will it to be a universal law. Once it is clear that the maxim passes both prongs of the test, there are n...
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1,211 wordsWhereas a teleological theory of ethics holds that an action is right, depending on the consequences; a deonteological theory states that an action is right, depending on the nature of the act itself, or of the intention of the person performing the act. Immanuel Kant, a deonteologist, once said, It is mans ability to reason, his own ability to think objectively and apart from his own circumstances and doings, that distinguishes him from all other creatures. Reason is an innate intellectual powe...
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