Essays on Immanuel Kant

What part does happiness play in determining the morality of an act in a situation? Can a concept that ties morality to the search of happiness truly be rational? What of the opposite? Is it possible to view every situation with objectivity, never taking into account an emotion (like happiness)? The questions above concern themselves…

This essay focuses on a dilemma that I have faced in the workplace. Firstly, I will describe the dilemma and then present how I used ethical theory to analyse the actions that I took to best resolve the situation. Deontological theories are used in my analysis. Applying Kantian theory to my actions supports that my…

This essay will compare and contrast the moral philosophies of three people: St Augustine, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle. Everybody has their own concept of what good is. Most people agree on certain things such as the morality of murder, stealing, etc. , however, as our conceptions are looked at with greater detail, why we do…

Sanded Michael Sanded starts off “The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Se by stating that philosophy is unavoidable and has existed from the beginning of humanity. He states, “To engage in a political practice is already to stand in reel action to theory. For all our uncertainties about ultimate questions Of political philosophy why of…

Kant and Mill’s Theories on Jean Valjean             Dictionaries can have similar thousands of meanings for the word “good.”  Those definitions given are in part, true.  But what really determines the goodness of a person, thing, situation, or action?  What determines bad or “evil” too?  Morality, then, is the next thing that comes to mind. …

I’m going to talk in this assignment about the movie: Gone Baby Gone; which is an incredible, fresh, and real film, and its relation with Kant theory. In this movie characters are rich and alive; the story is compelling, surprising, and not at all predictable. Kant said that one must have a respect for the…

The Immorality of Lying Introduction Lying is said to have started in the Bible when the Serpent lied to Eve about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, telling her “You shall not die” (NIV Holy Bible, Gen 3.4). It is indeed as old as humanity itself. Throughout the years, philosophers have contended…

Moral intuitionINTRODUCTIONEveryday, we people are faced with different decisions to make. These are decisions that regards career, action towards family members, friends and even in their relationship with God. Basically, people are always in constant dilemma on how they will live their lives. Their actions are their lives in general. What they manifest are their…

Ralph Waldo Emerson asks the question, “Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past. ” He begins his book by discussing how age affects thought and asks the question of why we, as adults, have to go by tradition and stories that have previously been told instead of making our own history…

Immanuel Kant and the Categorical ImperativePrinciples of Kantian ethics requires that a doctrine of action be universalizable before it can be considered as a properly ethical imperative. Kant provided the criteria of universalizability to all human actions that presents as an ethical imperative. Immanuel Kant In the 18th century, a German philosopher named Immanuel Kant put forward…