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    Kant Touch This – A Look into Moral Significance of Action Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is not an easy read. Kant’s writing is very dense and he uses a unique vocabulary. I am going to try to explain Kant’s three Propositions‚ and then show how the third Proposition follows from the first two. It’s hard at a glance to see how they are connected‚ but I am going to try to clarify the text so we can see it more clearly. We will also look at examples that can help give

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    are almost identical when it comes to their views on some moral issues. In regards to euthanasia‚ Kant and Catholicism have different reasons‚ yet their views are the same in that they say euthanasia is wrong. To find whether or not Kant and Catholics agree or disagree‚ there must first be a consensus on whether euthanasia is the same as killing someone. As defined by Webster’s dictionary‚ to

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    How "realistic" is Kantian "empirical realism"? Mainly by way of commentary on passages from the Analytic of Principles and Appendix to the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason‚ Abela offers‚ first‚ the "priority-of-judgment" view: "Kant...banish[es] the idea of any epistemic intermediary between belief and the world" (35); "there is nothing outside judgment...that informs‚ constrains‚ or ultimately grounds objectively valid judgment" (139-40). The ultimate ground is simply the totality of one’s

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    we have towards another person‚ a group or society as a whole. In this sense‚ deontology is concerned with the intrinsic properties of actions‚ not their end result. Immanuel Kant is arguably the most famous advocate of modern deontology. According to Kant‚ moral law is synthetic apriori and took an absolutist approach. Kant argued that since everyone possesses the capacity to reason and has a conscience‚ it would be possible for all people to arrive at an understanding of moral truths without the

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    Hume and Kant offered two differing views on morality. Hume’s philosophy regarding moral theory came from the belief that reason alone can never cause action. Desire or thoughts cause action. Because reason alone can never cause action‚ morality is rooted in us and our perception of the world and what we want to gain from it. Virtue arises from acting on a desire to help others. Hume’s moral theory is therefore a virtue-centered morality rather than the natural-law morality‚ which saw morality as

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    their families provide moral justification for the poor work conditions‚ and low wages that sweatshop labor provides? German philosopher Immanuel Kant would argue that there must be changes made in the politics of sweatshops to improve there conditions. Using his idea of the “Categorical Imperative” and treating people as “valuable in themselves” Kant would not completely take away the opportunity for these people to support themselves working in factories but make it a more humane system. Utilitarian

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    Universal Law and The Formula of the End in Itself. The first formulation is best described by the following statement‚ “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.” (Kant‚ 1785‚ 1993). What does this mean? A maxim is the fundamental rule of conduct or your moral belief upon which you chose to act. A universal law is a law that everyone must follow regardless of the outcome. How do we determine if the maxim can

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    Among Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) most influential contributions to philosophy is his development of the transcendental argument. In Kant’s conception‚ an argument of this kind begins with a compelling premise about our thought‚ experience‚ or knowledge‚ and then reasons to a conclusion that is a substantive and unobvious presupposition and necessary condition of this premise. The crucial steps in this reasoning are claims to the effect that a subconclusion or conclusion is a presupposition and necessary

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    between what is morally right and wrong thing to do. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) outlined in his book Groundworks of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). “reason tells us what we ought to do‚ and when we obey our own reason‚ only then are we truly free" (President and Harvard‚ 2011). Kant describes a situation where in life one should do the right thing not for appearances‚ but because doing the right thing is the morally correct thing to do. Kant dictates that there is a fundamental principle of ethics‚

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    Born in 1724‚ Immanuel Kant became an extremely important Prussian philosopher. His parents were poor as he grew up‚ and were part of a strict religious group – a protestant group known as Pietism. When he was sixteen‚ Kant went to university in Prussia and received the equivalent of a doctoral degree by the age of 31. He taught as a professor of logic and mathematics at the university and was an extremely popular lecturer‚ because people wanted to hear what he had to say. He wrote several notable

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