Kantian Ethics
Found 8 free book(s)Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, Natural Rights Theories ...
web.nmsu.eduUtilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, Natural Rights Theories, and Religious Ethics A “utilitarian” argument, in the strict sense, is one what alleges that we ought to do something because it will produce more total happiness than doing anything else would. Act utilitarianism (AU) is the moral theory that holds that the morally right action, the act
Kant’s ethics - University of Notre Dame
www3.nd.eduexplains why Kantian ethics yields quite different results about what we ought to do than the sorts of consequentialist views we discussed. Suppose, for example, that a judge knows that the defendant in a capital case is innocent, but also knows that not finding the defendant guilty and sentencing him to death will result in
Making Choices: A Framework for Making ... - Brown University
www.brown.eduThe Rights approach to ethics is another non-consequentialist approach which derives much of its current force from Kantian duty-based ethics, although it also has a history that dates back at least to the Stoics of Ancient Greece and Rome, and has another
Responsibility and Accountability
homepages.se.eduAccording to ethics activist Geoff Hunt, accountability is the readiness or preparedness to give an explanation or justification to rele-vant others (stakeholders) for one’s judgments, intentions, acts and omissions ... Kantian model supposes that we understand ourselves as free, reasoning individuals—invoking a mandate of both self-respect ...
A Duty to Live: Kant on Suicide - Washington and Lee ...
my.wlu.eduMorals (MM), and Lectures on Ethics (LE). For an overview of the central questions posed here and a modified Kantian alternative that emphasizes the role of human dignity, see Thomas Hill, “Killing Ourselves: Suicide and the Appreciation of Life,” in Steven Luper, ed., Cambridge Companion to Life
the critique of positivism - Russell Keat
www.russellkeat.netphilosophical standpoint from which his opposition arises is essentially Kantian, insistent upon the separation of scientific knowledge from the realm of values, freedom, and the will; and this standpoint runs quite contrary to the early positivists’ espousal of a scientized society. Yet, of course, we also
Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals - Early Modern Texts
www.earlymoderntexts.compart, and ethics likewise, though here the empirical part may be called more specifically ‘practical anthropology’ and the rational part ‘morals’ in the strict sense. All crafts, trades and arts have profited from the division of labour; for when •each worker sticks to one particular kind of work that needs to be handled differently ...
The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) - Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.orgDec 27, 2011 · which the Kantian philosophy had over me at the time, such as—categories, outer and inner sense, and the like. But even there these conceptions only occur because as yet I had never really entered deeply into them, therefore only by the way and quite out of connection with the principal matter. The correction