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Page 1: AS Religious Ethics Revision Deontology & Kant. DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS based on the idea that an act’s claim to being right or wrong is independent of the.

AS Religious AS Religious EthicsEthics

RevisionRevision

Deontology & KantDeontology & Kant

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DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICSDEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS

based on the idea that an based on the idea that an act’s claim to being right act’s claim to being right

or wrong is independent of or wrong is independent of the consequences of that the consequences of that

action.action.

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As opposed toAs opposed to

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TELEOLOGICAL ETHICSTELEOLOGICAL ETHICS

bases its judgements bases its judgements on the outcome of the on the outcome of the

action or its action or its consequences.consequences.

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

Based on Based on rationalismrationalism and and empiricismempiricism

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

BUTBUT

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

thought that the rationalists thought that the rationalists claimed too much for claimed too much for

reason, and the empiricists reason, and the empiricists emphasised sense emphasised sense

experience too muchexperience too much

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

So, he went for a So, he went for a compromise!compromise!

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

all our knowledge of the all our knowledge of the world comes from world comes from

sensationsensation

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

BUTBUT

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

Reason determines Reason determines howhow we perceive the we perceive the

world around us!world around us!

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

We perceive the We perceive the world initially in world initially in timetime and and spacespace

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

These two ‘These two ‘forms of forms of intuitionintuition’’ precede any precede any

experience that we experience that we might havemight have

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

People are aware of People are aware of a moral law at work a moral law at work

within themwithin them

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

NOT NOT as a vague feeling of as a vague feeling of something being right something being right

or wrongor wrong

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

But as But as

a direct experience of a direct experience of something powerfulsomething powerful

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

Two things fill the mind with ever Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration new and increasing admiration and awe the oftener and more and awe the oftener and more

steadily we reflect on them: the steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me starry heavens above me and the and the

moral law within memoral law within me

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

We have a We have a moralmoral obligationobligation to to actact in a in a

certain waycertain way

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

DUTYDUTY

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

His exploration of His exploration of what is good began what is good began with the with the good willgood will

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

The attributes of the The attributes of the mind that are mind that are

considered desirable considered desirable can also be subverted can also be subverted into something badinto something bad

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

These desirable mental These desirable mental attributes (intelligence, wit, attributes (intelligence, wit,

and so on) and the desires of and so on) and the desires of most people for fame and most people for fame and

fortune are held in check by fortune are held in check by the the good willgood will..

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

Thus, the good will Thus, the good will is essential for is essential for

happinesshappiness

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

Kant rooted the moral Kant rooted the moral choice in the will of the choice in the will of the

agentagent – we are each – we are each responsible for our own responsible for our own

actions!actions!

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

The exercise of a person’s The exercise of a person’s free will in an action free will in an action

becomes the basis on becomes the basis on which that action is which that action is

judged.judged.

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

He believed that the senses He believed that the senses (happiness or pleasure) could (happiness or pleasure) could

not be the source of moral not be the source of moral choicechoice (and thus rejected (and thus rejected

teleological theories)teleological theories)

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

He considered the He considered the reasonsreasons a person might a person might have for carrying out an have for carrying out an

actact

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

Which is why you have Which is why you have to learn his example of to learn his example of

the ‘honest’ the ‘honest’ shopkeeper!shopkeeper!

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

Kant argued that we Kant argued that we follow a moral follow a moral

command because we command because we feel that it is our DUTYfeel that it is our DUTY

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

But how do we But how do we know what our know what our

duty is?duty is?

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KANT’S PHILOSOPHYKANT’S PHILOSOPHY

The The CategoricalCategoricalImperative!Imperative!


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