PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deontological Ethics, Universal Rule, Universalizability
30 Nov 2016
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Rejects thought that we ought to make moral decisions to benefit the most numbers of members of our community (opposite utilitarianism) Categorical imperative: the procedures of thought that are binding over all human beings when it comes time to reason about how to behave morally, three different procedures fall under categorical imperative. Three formulations of the categorical imperative: first categorical imperative: First is supposed to test whether a proposed action is the kind of thing that can be universalized. Supposed to determine whether a course of action is a reasonable way to behave for all people everywhere. If it is not a reasonable course of action for all people to follow everywhere we do(cid:374)"t do it. According to kant for anybody to act rationally you have to be self-aware; when confronted with a moral dilemma you have to have a sense of what to do and why you intend to do it.
