Kant Vs Utilitarians

According to Kant, the reasons behind an action is what gives moral worth to actions. This is also referred to as a maxim (Shafer-Landau, 2010, p. 147). As opposed to the utilitarian’s view, the morality of the action is not relevant if there is a good outcome, meaning what gives moral worth to an action are the consequences. There are some disadvantages and advantages to both Kant’s view and utilitarians’ views. Nonetheless, I think Kant’s views are preferable and more reasonable. One of the reasons I consider Kant’s view more reasonable is because actions are things we can control, we can decide to either do something good or bad, moral or immoral, but we cannot always predict the consequences. This means that if we do something and it accidently