Ethics

2. Normative Ethical Theories: Kantian Ethics A deontological ethical theory. 2.1 Content • Kantian ethics, including: – duty – the hypothetical…

START HERE: Kant and the website All material in this section is fully integrated so you should be able to move…

Here is a set of possible exam questions you could face. For guidance on how to write essays, try my book…

Kantian ethics divides into two sets of ideas – or pairs of opposites. The key to understanding Kant is to try…

If you can DARM Kant you can definitely get an A grade! 1. DERIVATION –  How does Kant derive the idea…

Introduction This handout is a summary of a more detailed treatment in my book Kant and Natural Law, which contains longer…

An exploration of three versions of the Categorical Imperative with this powerpoint by Peter Baron Kant from Peped   Kant from…

‘Kantian ethics are helpful for moral decision-making in every kind of context.’ Discuss  On one hand, I do not think that…

Activity: Fill in your own ideas in the blank spaces – with three strengths and three weaknesses Rigidity Kant gave the example…

Clarity   Kant’s categorical imperative generates absolute rules, with no exceptions, which are easy to follow. Kant argued that rational beings…

Michael Sandel of Harvard University teaches a course on Justice. In his course he uses the Socratic method of questioning the…

These are some film clips I have found useful in raising issues around Kant’s view of ethics. Please email any further…

In the OCR specification we are required to apply Kant to issues surrounding business ethics (globalisation, stakeholder interests, whistleblowing, care of…

Schindler’s List Kant believed “the only good thing is the good will”, a reasoned will, operating according to the categorical imperative,…

At his trial Eichmann is cross-examined about his statement that he’d tried to live all his life by Kant’s categorical imperative….

Commentary on the preface to the Metaphysics of Morals – Tristan Stone PREFACE “Everyone must admit that a law, if it…

Michael Foucault comments on Kant’s Essay on Enlightenment. The Enlightenment which began with the Protestant revolution in the 16th century, elevates…

Is Kantian ethics compatible with utilitarianism?  Sorting Out Ethics R.M.Hare pages 153-5 RM Hare argues in this extract that much…

Williams on Kant – a discussion by Martha Nusbaum Boston Review Oct/Nov 2003 Kantianism, as Williams understood it, was a theory…

Kant’s reasoning takes him to some very strange places, however – places where we might not wish to follow. For example,…

On Morality by Lowell Kleiman If by “morality” we mean a code of conduct that is universally valid, then the basic…

Reproduced in the 1979 film I as in Icarus and the 2007 documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. The experiments began in…

COULD KANT HAVE BEEN A UTILITARIAN? RM Hare [An extract from Sorting out ethics, ©1997 RM Hare, ISBN 0-19-823727-8 Published by…

source We come next to the vexing problem of telling the truth to the axe murderer. The axeman knocks at our…

source Kant initiated his own “Copernican revolution” when he challenged philosophers with a new theory of knowledge. The human mind contains…

Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: the two worlds hypothesis Philosophy does not, and should not, have to be about rocket science —…

Lyle Crawford What If Everybody Did That? Kant’s Test Of The Universalized Maxim Here the author explores the key distinction in…

University of California, Davis – Kantian Personal Autonomy

Kant held that the most interesting and useful varieties of human knowledge, including moral knowledge, rely upon synthetic a priori judgments, which are, in…

The term a posteriori is used in philosophy to indicate inductive reasoning (from facts or observation to conclusion). The term is…

Source: Stanford encyclopaedia At the heart of Kant’s moral theory is the position that rational human wills are autonomous. Kant saw…

Source: Robert Louden, a virtue ethicist, considers the idea of the good will and the desires which are in tension with…

Source: Brad Hooker explains how the desires of our empirical human nature can never be the origin of moral actions, according to…

Treatise on Human Nature Book II Hume declares “reason is the slave of the passions”, meaning the only source of moral…

Extract from Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Kant’s Account of Reason First published Fri Sep 12, 2008 Two of the most prominent…