Kantian ethics
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 112 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5090-9284-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kantian ethics is a deontological ethical theory first proposed by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant based on the idea of moral duty. It asserts that a good will is the only intrinsically good thing and that an action is only good if performed out of duty, rather than out of practical need or desire. This was based on Kant's emphasis on reason for developing moral laws and his belief in the need to be able to universalise moral decisions, which led to the principle of the categorical imperative. Kant proposed five formulations of his ethical theory: The Categorical Imperative, from which all other formulations were derived, states that moral actions must be performed out of duty to the moral law. The Formula of Universal Law asserts that the principles behind an action must be universifiable. The Formula of Humanity as an End in Itself ensures that the motivation behind every action must be the good of humanity; this was the basis he gave...
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