. - The suffering person on the floor becomes a duty of care for both individuals.
I mean if the
friend that was promised to be taken to cinema sees the person on the floor in need his duty of
care weights heavier than his desire to go to the cinema and both individuals act in good will
giving the needed help to the individual on the floor. After that is done they can arrange the
cinema deal again.
. - u become unmoral person breaking promise, n save other u become moral at other, there is no
scale for it only binary law, people is moral n unmoral at the same time its human, simply no
moraly perfect human, but the will to always able to do the duty of becoming more moral person
is the main objective, regarding the outcome, struggle to become morally perfect person, ""do
not blurr the law by the outcome, the law is 1+1=2"" the human pursuit of perfect moral.
. - So we should be ethical because it is our duty and we should do our duty because it will create
a better world?
. –Lying to save a Life is a good reason to violate Kant's philosophy even if one is a genuine
honorable and honest person.
I mean integrity, but with little occasional twists in situations when lying to save a Life would
make one feel proud of himself.
As much as I agree with Kant in almost everything, I have a mind of my own and I would in
certain situations violate my own principles if the situations calls it. It is moral responsibility.
What is better I would ask myself: do I say the truth and another person gets killed because of
me or shall I save a Life by lying? I will have to lie in that situation. I would not like to live with
the thought that one is dead because of me. But I would live guilt free knowing that me telling a
sweet innocent lie saved a Life.
. – Kant characterized the CI as an objective, rationally necessary and unconditional principle
that we must always follow despite any natural desires or inclinations we may have to the
contrary. All specific moral requirements, according to Kant, are justified by this principle,
which means that all immoral actions are irrational because they violate the CI. Other
philosophers, such as Hobbes, Locke and Aquinas, had also argued that moral requirements are
based on standards of rationality. However, these standards were either instrumental principles of
rationality for satisfying one’s desires
. –Respect. Kant believed that a person should never be treated as a means to an end. The moral
decision that a person makes must not in any way take advantage of a person. An example is
lying to a person to gain “something” in return
-. One of the reasons Kant comes up with the Categorical Imperative is to go against
utilitarianism
Kant was not interested in Aristotle’s schema but he wants to go beyond all the particularities and go to the
(universal) principle of morality. Kant’s principle of morality seeks to justify virtues, natural law.
-. For Kant, you base everything on pure reason (reason a priori).
.- The function of reason is to produce a good will
.- Kant would obviously consider a possible divine will to be good, but he regards the very concept of
duty as inapplicable to God, so the divine will could never act from duty. In the same way, however, a
human will might be good but act under circumstances where no duty applies to it, or where it need not
act under the constraint of duty in order to act as morality requires.
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