PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deontological Ethics, Universal Law, Immanuel Kant
5 Apr 2016
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Deontology- moral theory premised on duty and obligation. Grounded in the goodness of the intensions connected with a moral act, rather than the consequences produced. Kant aspired to find for morality a grounding in the absolute like divine and natural law. Contrasts with mill- rightness is grounded in reason rather than desire/material. Good will is good because it is chosen, it is done against animal instinct. Categorical imperative: act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law (only do things that could be a universal law) Ci #1: formula of the universal law of nature: act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law (reasoning pg. Ci #3: the autonomy formula: the idea of the will of every rational being as a will that legislates universal law.
