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  1. Mar 29, 2015 · For an imperfect duty, the contradiction is that we can’t will a violation of an imperfect duty to the degree that we can’t will that others do the same to us; as in, it is contradictory to will that action and also hold certain desires/expectations of the treatment of others.

    • An Introduction to Kantian Ethics. Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in Königsberg in East Prussia, where he died in 1804. Kant is famous for revolutionising how we think about just about every aspect of the world — including science, art, ethics, religion, the self and reality.
    • Some Key Ideas. Duty. Kant’s main works in ethics are his Metaphysics of Morals (1797) and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). Neither give practical advice about particular situations but rather through rational reflection, Kant seeks to establish the supreme principle of morality.
    • Acting for the Sake of Duty and Acting in Accordance with Duty. From what we have said above about the nature of duty and good will we can see why Kant says that to act from good will is acting for the sake of duty.
    • Categorical and Hypothetical Imperatives. If we agree with Kant and want to act for the sake of duty what should we do? His answer is that we have to act out of respect for the moral law.
  2. A central claim of the Kantian approach to ethics is Kant's famous thesis that moral obligations or oughts arecategorical imperatives.” This Kantian thesis has four aspects: normativity , universality , supremacy , and necessity .

  3. Mar 10, 2017 · Kant’s most prominent formulation of the Categorical Imperative, known as the Formula of Universal Law (FUL), is generally thought to demand that one act only on maxims that one can will as universal laws without this generating a contradiction.

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  4. Jun 5, 2012 · Kantian ethical theory is grounded on the idea that the moral law is binding on me only because it is regarded as proceeding from my own will. The idea of autonomy identifies the authority of the law with the objective value constituting the content of the law.

  5. Elizabeth S. Anderson If much recent academic work defending equality had been secretly penned by conservatives, could the results be any more embarrassing for egalitarians? Consider how much of this work leaves itself open to classic and devastating conservative criticisms. Ronald Dworkin defines equality

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  7. Feb 5, 2014 · Introduction. Utilitarianism before Bentham. Benthamand utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century. Mill and utilitarianism in the mid-nineteenth century. Sidgwick and utilitarianism in the late nineteenth century. Utilitarianism in the twentieth century. Act utilitarianism. Rule utilitarianism. Global utilitarianism.

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