PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deontological Ethics, Categorical Imperative, Consequentialism
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An armchair activity that is not directly concerned with matching up its ideas with the world as we experience it. *do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)(cid:396)ite as (cid:455)ou speak (cid:862)gi(cid:448)e it a (cid:271)(cid:396)eak(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)no, just joki(cid:374)g(cid:863) *do not draw the (cid:396)eade(cid:396)"s attention how you say what you do, rather you want the reader to focus on what you have to say. *fi(cid:396)st pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) is oka(cid:455): (cid:862)i thi(cid:374)k that(cid:863) (cid:862)m(cid:455) (cid:448)ie(cid:449) is(cid:863) *lo(cid:374)g (cid:395)uotatio(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t need quotation marks just add: blah blah blah blah. (kant, p. 197) *do(cid:374)"t (cid:395)uote just to (cid:395)uote, (cid:395)uote (cid:449)he(cid:374) its a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t. Kant thinks that an action is good only if the act itself is of good will. *most animals are not ethical, we as humans have the power of reason. *animals lack of rationality means that their actions are determined by their nature. This implies that animals do not choose their decisions. *kant believes that it is our power of reason that gives us freedom.
