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Categorical Imperative Conventional Morality
1,105 wordsNietzsche: morality; How ought I to be? Nietzsche abhorred all morality; he felt it is fodder for the mindless masses (the herd). It deadens and destroys the individual, condemns creativity, and gives man no credit to make choices. It assumes man can not know what to do, so it lays down pre-made decisions for him to mindlessly follow. It ignores the nature of human instinct and stifles the growth of mankind. Moralists and philosophers both sought an order for the universe and a basis on which to...
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Kant Categorical Imperative Immanuel Kant
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Duty And Reason As The Ultimate Principle Kant
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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Point Of View Categorical Imperative
1,390 wordsEuthanasia is often called mercy killing. It is intentionally making someone die, rather than allowing that person to die naturally. It is sometimes the act of ending someones life, who is terminally ill, or is suffering in severe pain. Euthanasia is mostly illegal in the world today. Euthanasia can be considered a form of suicide, if the person afflicted with the problem actively does it. The person volunteering to commit the act to that person can also consider it a form of murder. The positiv...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patients
1,902 wordsIn America today many arguments are centered on the right to choose: the right for women to have an abortion, the right for gays to be allowed to raise children or be legally married, and the right to physician-assisted suicide. These arguments all have something to do with the individual having the right to make this choice or if society should be able to decide for them, thus removing this choice. Euthanasia is a choice everyone should have, but like all rights, it should not be taken advantag...
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Good Or Bad Categorical Imperative
1,154 wordsIn the Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals, the author, Immanuel Kant, tries to form a base by rejecting all ethical theories that are connected to consequences, and then focusing on our ethical motivations and actions. Kant wants to derive good characters out of contingently right actions. He believes that everything is contingent (everything can have good or bad worth, depending on how it is used). So he is trying to find the supreme principal of morality in all his reasoning. Kant also be...
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Prenatal Diagnosis Categorical Imperative
1,523 wordsThe case that I chose to discuss is an article which assesses the argument of whether it is ethically right or wrong to have a prenatal diagnosis of the sex of a child, in order for parents to decide if they want to keep the child or not. Some questions are raised as to whether sex selection through abortion is moral or immoral, and if it were immoral, in what circumstances, if any, would it be justified. Prenatal gender selection through abortion is a legal practice in any country where abortio...
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Mill And Ethical Theories
1,709 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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Sense Of Duty Majority Of People
2,082 wordsKant (1). It has been rightfully suggested that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant revolves around his unique understanding of notion of morality. According to philosopher, morality has universal properties, which cannot be discussed within the context of their practical utilization, because otherwise, morality becomes subjected to perceptional subjectivity. Kant believed that every individual is being psychologically divided between two realms that are essentially opposite the realm of pure ideas ...
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Consequential Ist Categorical Imperative
1,698 wordsEthics, broadly conceived, is concerned with questions about value, how we should live, and what we should do. Normative ethics is concerned with developing general theories in response to these kinds of questions. Consequentialist's, contract arians, virtue ethicist's, Kantians, and still others all develop different theories. But these theorists understand the subject matter itself differently, stress different questions, and offer different answers. These differences themselves then become th...
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John Stuart Mill Pain And Pleasure
2,803 wordsPhilosophy Of three philosophical structures that have been proposed for examination, namely virtue based ethics, utilitarianism and deontology, virtue based ethics appears to be the most relevant. To prove correctness of my proposition, Ill give a brief account of the history of philosophy concerning the concept of ethics as being viewed by various philosophers, and examine all three trends by juxtaposing them and indicating their strengths and weaknesses. Likewise, I will try to focus on some ...
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Point Of View Categorical Imperative
2,112 words... with man's natural need for a society, that is with man as an essentially social being. From a social point of view this sensus communis is the beginning of civilization. For in society man does not want to be just man, but a fine man in his way. Becoming a fine man means that someone has to give himself a good shape. By style man is presenting himself, he presents his particularity, he says 'this is me' and at the same time he transcends this particularity by making himself communicable to ...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau Lord Jesus Christ
2,529 wordsThe Enlightment The Enlightment was a period of the social peoples development that started in 1648, right at the end of 30 Year War. The Enlightment believed in religious diversity and the fact that all religions are actually different expressions of reality. Enlightment no longer accepted things based on faith, event historical events from the Bible. Once freed from history of the Bible we can believe in the God of Christianity on a freer basis. Enlightment was criticizing only Christianity; t...
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Church And State Separation Of Church
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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Categorical Imperative Good Intentions
214 wordsThe categorical imperative is a better guide for moral reasoning because it can be applied by the individual with a clear, understandable reverence for the morality of the whole community. Mills utilitarianism is also concerned with the whole, but the mechanism by which one can judge the worth of his or her actions is quite a leap. When a utilitarian makes a moral decision about an action the primary concern is individual happiness. The agent must then consider the consequences of this action wi...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Ethical Decision Making
8,330 wordsCORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Because society is fundamentally based upon performance and profit, it is not unusual to find that it is necessary to impart a sense of corporate social responsibility with regard to contemporary commerce. The ethical approaches of purpose, principle and consequence are integral components of business social performance; itemizing these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concepts tha...
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Synthetic A Priori Critique Of Pure Reason
2,259 wordsImmanuel Kant was born on April 22, 1724 in Konigsburg, East Prussia. At age 8, he entered the Collegium Fridiricianum, a pietistic Latin school, where he remained for 8 1 / 2 years and studied the classics. he then entered the University of Konigsburg in 1740 to study philosophy, mathematics, and physics. In 1756, he received a degree and was made a lecturer, and in 1770 he became a professor. The death of his father halted his university career so he became a private tutor. In 1755, he returne...
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John Stuart Mill Imperative Which Dictates
1,171 wordsJohn Stuart Mill verses Immanuel Kant's ethical theories; Which makes a better societal order? John Stuart Mill 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 possible balance of good over evil for everyone involved. However, good is a relative term. What is good? Utilitarians disagreed on this subject. Mill made a distinction between happiness and sheer sensual pleasure. He def...
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State Of Nature Good For The Greatest Number
2,988 wordsThe Prisoners Dilemma: A Stepping-Stone To The Refutation Of Pure Self-Interest And A Guide To Political And Moral Obligation The prisoners dilemma is a well-known example in moral philosophy that characterizes some of the difficulties that arise when studying moral and justice theory. Throughout this paper it will be used as the vehicle to go from the different ideas of morality and justice. The purpose of this journey is to reach a refutation of pure self-interest, as proposed by Thomas Hobbes...
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Law Of Nature Categorical Imperative
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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