Kantianism: Categorical Imperative I: Scenarios
Kantianism :
Categorical imperative I :
Scenario 1
Proposed rule: (I may lie to use the private library’s PCs with the intention of getting a full scholarship to attend a prestigious university.) In this case.
“I can lie with the intention of getting good grades and a scholarship.”
• The person in trouble wants his lie to be believed so she gets what she needs – in this case to use the unused private library’s PC’s connected with the net to research and get good grades and later a scholarship.
• Universalize rule: Everyone could lie to get good grades and a scholarship.
• Everyone lying would make truth unbelievable, contradicting the desire to have truth believed.
• The rule is flawed. The answer is “No”. In this case the intention …show more content…
It isn’t means to the end as the organization was hopefully expecting their effort to be paid off which did not happen in this case instead they were regarded as a negative point which changed the whole impact. Hence the action is immoral as it took the wrong side to end up in the final result.
Scenario 3
Rational Agents: ESDP and five members of terrorist organisation
According to this article, it is an end to the means as the overall result was to reduce the number of people speeding on East Dakota freeways whereas the means was to issue the speeding ticket to the driver if the driver’s license photo matched the registered owners of the car which shows us that it is unethically immoral as five members were arrested being in a terrorist organisation which brings up that there were people driving not their own cars, this concludes to the end by saying either people were driving without license or they weren’t using their own cars or they did not have a car to drive.
Scenario 4
Rational Agents: Company and the …show more content…
Benefits:
• EDSP can easily identify the speeders and catch hold of them, and this would reduce the amount of accidents due to speeding, which benefits the society as a whole.
• FBI could catch five members of a terrorist organization by using the information collected by the video cameras.
Harms:
• Terrorists got caught due to the video cameras installation.
Therefore, as the benefits of installing a video cameras on all freeway passes, prevails the harms, this action will be moral.
Scenario 4
Affected parties: Senior software engineer, competitors, salespeople, the company who is launching the new product and the corporation which is being told that the product would be launching next week.
Benefits:
• The competitors would have an advantage to be the first ones to market the product, if the company does not market it first.
• Due to the launching of the new product, the salespeople would have their work easily done through their smart phones.
Harms:
• The major corporation who were told by the company that they are launching the new product next week, so the action of not launching it next week would affect the reputation of the
Categorical imperative I :
Scenario 1
Proposed rule: (I may lie to use the private library’s PCs with the intention of getting a full scholarship to attend a prestigious university.) In this case.
“I can lie with the intention of getting good grades and a scholarship.”
• The person in trouble wants his lie to be believed so she gets what she needs – in this case to use the unused private library’s PC’s connected with the net to research and get good grades and later a scholarship.
• Universalize rule: Everyone could lie to get good grades and a scholarship.
• Everyone lying would make truth unbelievable, contradicting the desire to have truth believed.
• The rule is flawed. The answer is “No”. In this case the intention …show more content…
It isn’t means to the end as the organization was hopefully expecting their effort to be paid off which did not happen in this case instead they were regarded as a negative point which changed the whole impact. Hence the action is immoral as it took the wrong side to end up in the final result.
Scenario 3
Rational Agents: ESDP and five members of terrorist organisation
According to this article, it is an end to the means as the overall result was to reduce the number of people speeding on East Dakota freeways whereas the means was to issue the speeding ticket to the driver if the driver’s license photo matched the registered owners of the car which shows us that it is unethically immoral as five members were arrested being in a terrorist organisation which brings up that there were people driving not their own cars, this concludes to the end by saying either people were driving without license or they weren’t using their own cars or they did not have a car to drive.
Scenario 4
Rational Agents: Company and the …show more content…
Benefits:
• EDSP can easily identify the speeders and catch hold of them, and this would reduce the amount of accidents due to speeding, which benefits the society as a whole.
• FBI could catch five members of a terrorist organization by using the information collected by the video cameras.
Harms:
• Terrorists got caught due to the video cameras installation.
Therefore, as the benefits of installing a video cameras on all freeway passes, prevails the harms, this action will be moral.
Scenario 4
Affected parties: Senior software engineer, competitors, salespeople, the company who is launching the new product and the corporation which is being told that the product would be launching next week.
Benefits:
• The competitors would have an advantage to be the first ones to market the product, if the company does not market it first.
• Due to the launching of the new product, the salespeople would have their work easily done through their smart phones.
Harms:
• The major corporation who were told by the company that they are launching the new product next week, so the action of not launching it next week would affect the reputation of the