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23 lut 2004 · Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argued that the supreme principle of morality is a principle of practical rationality that he dubbed the “Categorical Imperative” (CI). Kant characterized the CI as an objective, rationally necessary and unconditional principle that we must follow despite any natural desires we may have to the contrary.
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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."
30 wrz 2013 · The ethical theory of Immanuel Kant (b. 1724–d. 1804) exerted a powerful influence on the subsequent history of philosophy and continues to be a dominant approach to ethics, rivaling consequentialism and virtue ethics.
This article focuses on how certain basic normative questions are addressed by Kant and various contemporary Kantians who interpret and extend Kant's theory. Kant's ethical writings are open to different interpretations, and the literature devoted to interpreting and extending his ideas is vast, diverse, and of mixed quality.
5 cze 2012 · The aim of this chapter is to say what a Kantian ethical theory is, by characterizing Kant's conception of the aims and methods of what Kant calls a metaphysics of morals.
A central claim of the Kantian approach to ethics is Kant's famous thesis that moral obligations or oughts are “categorical imperatives.” This Kantian thesis has four aspects: normativity, universality, supremacy, and necessity.
Ethicists who have been influenced by Kant's critical moral philosophy are called ‘Kantian’. The term can also be extended to ethicists who grappled with and rejected Kant or the Kantian spirit. This chapter first discusses the core of Kant's ethics, those important theorems that provide a criterion for determining the extent to which a ...
