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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.
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- Practical Reason
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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.
Similarly, morality will be a system of universal rules that govern action. In Kant’s view, as we will see, right action is ultimately a rational action. As an ethics of duty, Kant believes that ethics consists of commands about what we ought to do.
2 paź 2008 · Kantian duty-based ethics says that some things should never be done, no matter what good consequences they produce. This seems to reflect the way some human beings think.
Kantian ethics refers to a deontological ethical theory developed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant that is based on the notion that "I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
21 lis 2007 · If any philosopher is regarded as central to deontological moral theories, it is surely Immanuel Kant. Indeed, each of the branches of deontological ethics—the agent-centered, the patient-centered, and the contractualist—can lay claim to being Kantian.
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.
