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23 lut 2004 · In Kant’s framework, duties of right are narrow and perfect because they require or forbid particular acts, while duties of ethics and virtue are wide and imperfect because they allow significant latitude in how we may decide to fulfill them.
- Cognitive Disability and Moral Status
For example, the negative utility that might result from...
- Kant and Hume on Morality
The relationship between Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) and David...
- Kant's Social and Political Philosophy
Kant favored right-governed free markets that allowed people...
- Constructivism in Metaethics
1. What is Constructivism? The term ‘constructivism’ entered...
- Respect
The most influential account of respect for persons is found...
- Rule Consequentialism
Harrison, J, 1953, “Utilitarianism, Universalisation, and...
- Practical Reason
According to the Kantian constructivist, practical reason is...
- Personal Autonomy
Most of the reasons that can be offered in support of this...
- Cognitive Disability and Moral Status
20 wrz 2023 · Kant introduced the notion of deontological ethics, a system that assesses the morality of actions based on the adherence to rules, rather than the consequences. Let’s embark on a journey to understand Kant’s categorical imperative and how it suggests that duty is the cornerstone of moral action.
2 paź 2008 · Immanuel Kant © Kant's version of duty-based ethics was based on something that he called 'the categorical imperative' which he intended to be the basis of all other rules (a 'categorical...
(1) we have an ethical obligation to others to adopt the happiness of others as our end, yet. (2) normally no particular other person has a claim on our assistance in advancing her happiness. These two claims are at the heart of Kant's conception of our obligatory end regarding others.
23 lut 2004 · Kant uses four examples, one of each kind of duty, to demonstrate that every kind of duty can be derived from the CI, and hence to bolster his case that the CI is indeed the fundamental principle of morality.
Kant’s political philosophy is a branch of practical philosophy, one-half of one of the broadest divisions in Kant’s thought between practical and theoretical philosophy. Political philosophy is also to be distinguished within practical philosophy from both empirically-based elements and from virtue proper. The separation from virtue is ...
This encyclopedia entry (co-authored with W.H. Walsh) focuses on the main doctrines of Kant's ethical theory. Topics covered include the good will, hypothetical and categorical imperatives, duty, practical reason, and freedom and necessity.