PHILOS 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Kantian Ethics, Deontological Ethics, Rationality
19 Sep 2012
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Focuses less on the consequences, more on the actions themselves. Less focus on making people happy than respecting people: reasoning proves to be important we act on the basis of reasoning. Capacity to deliberate about and act upon valid reasons for action: autonomy: we are not necessarily autonomous, but have the capacity for it. Capacity to rise above compelling forces of desire, self-interest, physical necessity to act on the basis of reasons: persons have a will and so have dignity and moral worth. A faculty of choosing part of choosing is acting on the basis of reasons. The difference between value and moral value people are incomparable and irreplaceable in their worth; unlike objects which have worth, regarded in price, people don"t have a price. Moral worth lies in the kind of act it is, not in the consequences it produces: kant is generally viewed to be a deontological morality.
