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Kantian ethics - Coggle Diagram
Kantian ethics
weaknesses
conflicts in duty (Jean Paul Sartre) - should a man stay with his mother or go to war? - principles contradict each other
Alasdair Macintyre - the notion of universalisability can be used to justify anything - tailoring a maxim
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Hegel - Kant places a too low value on community - ignores special relationships that provide roots of morality
H. J Paton - many don't possess the freedom to make valid moral decisions, even if they have the rationality to do so (e.g political regimes)
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Phillipa Foot - we should incorporate motives - only hypothetical imperatives give us a reason to act- influenced by Aristotle's virtue ethics - many virtues are contingent + based on desire
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notion of duty
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what we find out is the logically right thing to do - using reason - rules out inclinations + desires
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Newton's influence
Newton's discovery bought order to our perception of the world - Kant saw a link between this and moral law which is a priori and fixed