Immanuel Kant's Deontological Ethics Or Action-Based Theories

Deontological ethics or action-based theories mainly focus on the actions people implement. This allows people to break their bad habits and truly get rid of all the anger and hatred they contain. Deontologist believe that you should always do the right thing even if it results in pain rather than doing the wrong thing, it is your duty. One of history's’ greatest philosophers, Immanuel Kant, was also a great believe of doing the right thing. His overall perspective within was that if you commit a good deed the context must also be good. An example of this would be , someone has lost their wallet you help them look for it out of the kindness of your heart. Now if you help look for it in hopes of getting some sort of money or reward in return then it does not apply to these ethics. To him, ‘a
One was that moral roles must be universalisable and the other, moral rules must respect human beings. Overall, these rules express that it should apply to everyone and allow people to feel as if they are valuable nothing less.

As usual with an approach comes many different aspects, whether they consists of drawbacks and/or benefits. Beginning on a positive note, deontological ethics allows everyone to feel treated and respected equally.That is one of the most important concepts because as humans if we don’t support each other we do not only weaken the value of others but our self value. If others aren’t aware of their equality, how can you be so sure you are truly aware of your own? That’s what it all comes down to, equal respect. Now, going back to Kant, it supports a positive aspect because it simply expresses doing good for the good