PHL105Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kantianism
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Utilitarianism and kantianism has an advantage over. Evolutionary theory: can explain prescriptive nature of morality. Prescriptive morality if an action is moral, then one ought to do it. One ought to improve well-being as best as one can. Morality tells you not to kill for sport but some people. Morality tells you to help the poor but many people do it don"t do it. You can do what you ought to do. You can not do what you ought to do. Because doing a is a means to achieving your goal. You ought to remove your hats indoors: this is more like etiquette, you don"t have to have some specific goal. You ought to do something because some system of rules specifies it. Do you have a reason to do as morality says, Why do what morality prescribes: because it is moral. Why do what etiquette prescribes: because it is etiquette.
