The Incorporation Thesis makes it clear that, according to Kant, we are not caused to act by this or that incentive, but rather we let it move us by incorporating it in our maxim. However, Kant does not provide us with a more detailed account of incorporation in which he s...
Kantian Ethics—Kant had no time for Utilitarianism. He believed in placing the emphasis on happiness the theory completely misunderstood the true nature of morality. In his view, the basis for our sense of what is good or bad, right or wrong, is our awareness that human beings are free, ...
This originally referred to a place of dwelling, location, but also habit, custom, convention. It was Cicero who translated the Greek term into Latin with “mores” (ethos, customs), from which the modern concept of morality is derived (Cicero 44BC). The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (...
To see this worry in its most acute form, it is helpful to understand how it arises within Kant’s theory of action. A central feature of Kant’s theory of motivation is his insistence that the will is free, in the sense that it is always in principle possible for us to choose to r...
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction. In other words, if you want to know whether an action is ethical, imagine a world where everyone behaved as you did. ...
the case, keyboard and hard drive to Thailand, produced the display screen and memory in South Korea, the wireless card in Malaysia and the microprocessor in the U.S. The final product was assembled in Mexico and was then exported to the U.S. for sale. (p. 9-10) What is the World...
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one condition is sufficient to rule out the maxim as just, but two or more of these conditions may apply at the same time. 22. Gosseries and Parr (2017: Section 1.1) argue that the Kantian test is the equivalent in the political sphere of the categorical imperative. On the same point,...