POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Deontological Ethics, Immanuel Kant, Categorical Imperative
14 Dec 2017
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What are some of the most pressing ethical, moral. Deontological ethics: focuses on actions that are good and bad in themselves, ex/ stealing, hurting someone. Consequentialist ethics: focuses on actions that are good and bad insofar as they lead towards some valued ends. Negative duties: have to do something to avoid doing something. Ex/ don"t kill a person, don"t set fire to things. Positive duties: demand you do something to do something good. Views the human world as a single community with common or universal rules, principles, and mutual obligations. Views the world as a collection of distinct and separate communities struggle for survival in a non-moral anarchic realm of realpolitik. Views the human world a s a single community with common rules, principles, and mutual obligations.
