CRM/LAW C10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Categorical Imperative, Individualism

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C10
• Professor: Hillary Berk

Document Summary

C-10 notes 1-24 - human dignity, kant, and the constitution. Maximize utility and collective welfare: emphasize government action for the common good. Libertarianism: respect individual rights, minimize government action, coercion, and moral judgement. Kantian ethics: respect human dignity and universal human rights, connects justice and morality to freedom through autonomy reason, and duty, what matters i the motive, not the consequences of actions. Connections between capacity for reason and capacity for freedom. To act freely is to act autonomously, according to the law i give myself. With auto(cid:374)o(cid:373)y (cid:272)o(cid:373)es (cid:373)o(cid:396)al (cid:396)espo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ility (cid:894)(cid:396)eal (cid:862)f(cid:396)eedo(cid:373)(cid:863)(cid:895) To act freely is to choose the end itself, for its own sake. Not treated as an object to be use for others. It is(cid:374)"t the (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)es of a(cid:374) a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) that (cid:373)atte(cid:396), it"s the (cid:373)otive- do the right thing for the right reason. Motives of inclination (lacks moral worth) vs.