Kantian ethics

    Cards (11)

    • Kant - strength
      "Act inly according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that is should become a universal law"
    • Karol wojyula - strength
      "The human person possesses the dignity of a subject who can never be treated as a mere object"
    • O'Neill - strength
      "Human dignity is most readily secured if all individuals are treated as autonomous agents"
    • Jurgan habermas - strength
      "All participants in practical discourse must be allowed equal rights to speak, act and react"
    • Kleingeld - strength

      "Kants view that human beings are inherently valuable and posses dignity is an important starting point for thinking about many moral and political issues today"
    • Jean Paul Sartre - weakness
      "Man is condemned to be free because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he does"
    • Hume - weakness
      "Reason is only to be the slave of the passions" reason is below emotions and our feelings come first
    • Pojman - weakness
      "The problem with deontological theories is that sometimes they lead to results that seem intuitively unacceptable"
    • Hegel - weakness

      "This freedom, at first simple and abstract, lacks the filling of reality and content"
    • E.C Ewing - weakness
      "To have moral character it is necessary not merely to act from duty, but also to act for the sake of good consequences"
    • Anscombe - weakness
      "Kants system is moralistic and abstract"
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