MODR 1730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Immanuel Kant, Universal Rule
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We have hopes, desires, emotions, dreams etc. Programmed in the nature of the creature. Kant is getting that a person is: a rational creature, more then the sum of their biology. He says treating people like objects and instruments is monstrous. Kant has 2 princples: duty and goodwill. If you can not be a universal rule then you ought not to do it. Moral duty to do the right thing. Good will something you can universalize: act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your won person or in the person of any other, never simply. Not correct to treat people as objects and things. Both are concerned with what we ought to do. Hard to live a life with this theory. Doesn"t deal with consequences and what people think of you, just do the right thing. Doing the right thing can be difficult. It is your interest to be oral.