COGS 3750 Lecture Notes - Universalizability, Normative Ethics, Immanuel Kant
8 Apr 2014
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Logos": logic or rationality: kant"s deontology was a theory that saw ethics as being based on a logic of duty. The norms that govern the moral propriety of actions are based on duties that are logically conceived: we will first go over the central features of this theory, and then some virtues and drawbacks of it. Iii deontology: central features of the theory: the first main feature of kant"s deontological ethical theory is that it is a duty-based theory, this implies that it contrasts with consequentialist theories. For the deontologist, an action performed for the right reasons is an action that one has a duty to perform. 6: another feature of kant"s deontological ethical theory is that it is reason based, utilitarianism, we"ve seen, is in a sense not based on reason. True, we need to calculate the expected utility of an action in a rational manner to assess its moral status.
