DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS Flashcards
A German philosopher from Konigsbergs, East Prussia. - Wrote among other things, Critique of Pure Reason
IMMANUEL KANT
Is the necessity of acting from respect for the
law.
Duty
the principle/general rule of volition, i.e. will, one’s power of choice, or the
act of choosing itself.
maxim
Only thing that is good without qualification.
GOOD WILL
2 NATURE OF IMPERATIVES
Hypothetical Imperatives
Categorical Imperatives
If you want, you ought. The ought or the duty is
conditioned by your desires, wants and goals.
Our goals are grounded in SELF-INTEREST.
HYPOTHETICAL IMPERATIVES
The supreme principle of the moral law
CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
“Act as if the maxim of your action were to
secure through your will a universal law of
nature.”- Principle of Universality.
FIRST FORMULATION
“Act so that you treat humanity, whether in
your own person or that of another, always
as an end and never as a mean.”- Principle
of Humanity.
SECOND FORMULATION
Act so that your will is what makes universal
law.” - Principle of Autonomy
THIRD FORMULATION
Kant thinks that the only thing that is intrinsically good
is called?
GOOD WILL.
The proper object of respect
Will
which means an ethics centered on “DUTY”
DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS
is natural or positive according as it is founded
upon the natural law or positive law.
Right
is the power which right enjoys of
forcefully preventing its violation, and of exacting
redress for unjust violation.
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