PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kantian Ethics, Immanuel Kant, Consequentialism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2397
• Professor: Jon Miller

Document Summary

If feelings are what constitute morality, then justice cannot exist. If human beings are the only things with both reason and free will, therefore human beings are morality (without human beings, morality would not exist) If we want to be true to who we really are, we have to take morality seriously. Categorical imperative: act so as to treat all people as ends, never as means to an end, act so as to treat all personal maxims (personal rules) as if they were universal laws. Golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.