PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Universalizability, Kantianism
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According to kant, morality is not about improving wellbeing or bringing about the most happiness, what morality has to do with is fairness and respect for each individual as a human being. Kant had different proposals for the fundamental principle of morality and regarded them as equivalent, seemed to think that they got the same verdicts about which acts were permissible and which were impermissible. Principle of universalizability an act is right if and only if its maxim is universalizable. A maxim is universalizable if and only if it is possible to act successfully on the maxim, in the world in which everyone acts on the same maxim. A maxim is a principle of your action, principle you"re acting on when you act: what you are about to do and why you are about to do it. Maxim is intended action + reason you"re doing it.
