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Kantian Ethics
- good will and duty
- he used the term good to describe
the ‘good will’, by which he meant the
resolve to act purely in accordance
with one’s duty.
- He believed that, using
reason, an individual
could work out what
one’s duty was.
- free will,God and immortality
- he presumed that we could act
morally, and for this to be the
case we must be free(we are not)
- must be a God and life after death,
otherwise morality would make no
sense.
- synthetic / A priori
- These laws are determined
through experience (a posteriori)
- The rational being has
to determine the
synthetic a priori – the
substantive rules that
can be applied prior to
experience.
- categorical imperative
- universability
- A rule that will
always consistant no
matter the situation
- Ends in themselves
- So act as to treat
humanity, whether
in your own
person or in that
of any other, in
every case as an
end in itself, never
as means only.
- kingdom of
ends; Love
your neighbour
as yourself