PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Immanuel Kant, Deontological Ethics, Categorical Imperative

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 1B03
• Professor: Stefan Rodde

Document Summary

Better the whole people should perish than justice be done conditions for moral actions. Right intentions: you must intend to do the right thing: an action is right if it is sanctioned by a genuine moral rule. The categorical imperative: makes a rule genuine, i ought never to act except in such a way that i can also will that my act should become a universal law , maxim. A general principle which specifies how i conceive of an action and my reason for doing it. Whenever i make a promise i will keep it. Every action is done in accordance with some maxim: rules. Every maxim is correlated to a general rule. The maxim : whenever i make a promise i will keep them is correlated to the rule. Every action falls under some sort of rule.