PHIL 2260 Lecture 2: law punishment and morality
17 Dec 2018
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Amoral - no value to something or something you do. In kantian ethics, there are three possible kinds of action: amoral- accords with, but not motivated by duty, moral- motivated by duty, immoral- disagrees with duty, caveat 2: kant says that we are only moral if: If god exists: youre immoral, youre free, postulates. Means = way of achieving a goal: have to treat people as means (people are valuable or should be valuable) If you commit suicide, you"re treating yourself as a means to an end. Equivalence of versions: version 1+2, each person as a rational end in itself is the maker of universal moral law, morality comes directly from us; makers of reality, divine commentary. Inquiring murderer case: have to do duties regardless of consequences. John rawl"s application of kant"s ethics: distributive justice. Initial situation: there must be universal principles that can be applied evenly among the party that doesn"t show bias.
