PHIL 482 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Immanuel Kant, Kantian Ethics, Formal And Material Principles Of Theology

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 482
• Professor: Martin Pettersson

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Duty ethics - also called kantian ethics, after its formulator and popularizer, immanuel kant. An act has moral value when the will is perfectly aligned with duty. All rational beings are bound by the demands of duty based on their rationality. Morality is based on the purity of the will, not on the consequences of an action. Will - one of many faculties of the mind. We can be weak-willed, even when our intellect grasps a situation and its consequences adequately. Only time we pay attention to our will is when we"re in a crucible. The will of a person can be trained. An analytic a priori judgment is one in which the predicate says no more than what was contained in the subject. A synthetic a posteriori judgment is one in which the predicate says more than what was contained in the subject.