Kant
's Moral Theory
Kingdom of Ends
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature. Kant
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Kant
's Moral Theory Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature. Kant |
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For future lectures
| Consider whether the
Milgram Learning
Experiment experiment is justifiable: From a utilitarian perspective, would more people stand to benefit from the experiment that the number of test subjects? From a Kantian perspective, it is never justifiable to reduce a person to a "means." A person is a kingdom of ends.
What is one of the most basic principles of the Nuremberg Code?
"Act only so that the will through its maxims could regard itself at the same time as universally lawgiving." (Martin 64) alternate third quote
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Immanuel Kant was born on April 22, 1724, in Königsberg, East Prussia . He never traveled more than 40 miles In spite of this, his University of Konigsberg: lectures on geography attracted a wide audience.
Students and his neighbors could set their clock by his schedule. He took a daily afternoon walk promptly at 3:30. His servant always had an umbrella in hand, as Kant vas very health conscious. The only exception was the day he war reading Rousseau's Émile.
He took a daily afternoon walk promptly at 3:30. His servant always had an umbrella in hand, as Kant vas very health conscious. The only exception was the day he war reading Rousseau's Émile.
Kant did not sleep much. He commanded
his servant Lampe to wake him at 5:00 A..M. The reason for this is:
" Kant even wrote a little book about the subject of physical wellbeing,
detailing for instance how one must not sleep too much because he
believed that each person had a certain measure of sleep allotted to
them, and if all of it was used up too soon it meant an early death." (Philosophy
Now retrieved 2/25/06) He retired promptly at
10:00 P.M. His nightclothes were methodically laid out by his
servant, and he slept "rolling himself up completely in the
sheets" (Philosophy
Now retrieved 2/25/06) , like a cocoon.
Rousseau quoted from webster's online dictionary" Jean-Jacques
1712-1778 French (Swiss-born) philosopher & writer; known for writings
advocating superiority of savage state, opposing private property,
insisting that the rightful political authority is the general will;
influenced modern pedagogical movements"
Questions for discussion
How can having a hair stylist cut one's hair be seen in terms of using a person as a mean and as treating one as an end.
What does it mean to have a climate of respect in the classroom? Describe the Kantian classroom.
Kant: "Duty is the necessity of an action executed from respect for moral law." Foundations of Metaphysics
"Suicide is not an abomination because God has forbidden it; it is forbidden by God because it is abominable." Kant
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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...the starry heavens above and the moral law within." Kant"Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." Kant
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