Kantian Ethics

• Categorical Imperative: The principle that an action is morally right if it can be universally applied without contradiction.
• Good Will: The intrinsic moral quality of intending to do one's duty.
• Duty: Moral obligations that must be fulfilled.
• Autonomy: Acting in accordance with rational self-governance.
• Categorical Imperative: Deciding not to lie because lying would lead to a contradiction if everyone did it.
• Good Will: Performing an action solely because it is morally right, regardless of personal desires.
• Duty: Keeping promises as a moral obligation.
• Autonomy: Making ethical decisions based on rational reflection.
• Immanuel Kant: Developed Kantian Ethics, emphasizing the role of reason and duty in ethical decision-making.
• Strengths: Emphasizes rationality and universalizability.
• Weaknesses: May not account for consequences or individual circumstances.
• Kant believed that we have an innate sense of morality which he called 'the moral law'. This is our conscience.
• We are all born with this moral law within us and it guides us to do what is right.
• 'The good will is not good because it achieves its object, but rather the opposite - it achieves its object because it is good'