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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
However, neither the love nor the respect we owe is a matter...
- Rule Consequentialism
Nevertheless, if a moral theory fails significantly to...
- Practical Reason
According to the Kantian constructivist, practical reason is...
- Personal Autonomy
An additional source of support for the reasons-responsive...
- 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.
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.
21 lis 2007 · 2.4 Deontological Theories and Kant. 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.
30 wrz 2013 · Significant aspects of Kant’s fully developed ethical theory include its rich theory of virtue and the virtues, its taxonomy of duties (which include duties to oneself as well as to others), its distinctive conceptions of the highest good and human evil, and its connections with Kant’s philosophies of history, religion, and human nature.
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.
