1 / 13

Condorcet, Rousseau, & Kant

Condorcet, Rousseau, & Kant. Condorcet. Education for the masses Education for women Mechanical productivity gains Increase in agricultural yield Medical advances. Jean Jacques Rousseau. French Philosophe “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” People are good

armani
Download Presentation

Condorcet, Rousseau, & Kant

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Condorcet,Rousseau, & Kant

  2. Condorcet Education for the masses Education for women Mechanical productivity gains Increase in agricultural yield Medical advances

  3. Jean Jacques Rousseau French Philosophe “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” People are good Society and government make people bad

  4. Rousseau’s Social Contract Hobbes – Contract between man and an absolute monarch Locke – Contract between man and a representative government Rousseau – Contract between man and his fellow men

  5. Rousseau's Philosophy Best government is popular sovereignty (direct democracy) Individual needs are secondary to the “General Will” Against private property and noble titles

  6. Immanuel Kant Born in Prussia Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg

  7. Respect “Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.”

  8. Categorical Imperative How do we tell right from wrong? What makes right actions right and wrong actions wrong? Maxim: a subjective rule that the will of an individual uses in making a decision.

  9. Kant’s Maxims • First Maxim: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." • Second Maxim: “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end and never merely as a means to an end.” • Third Maxim: “Therefore, every rational being must so act as if he were through his maxim always a legislating member in the universal kingdom of ends.”

  10. First Maxim Is it okay to steal? Maxim: Stealing is okay. 1st Maxim: Could it be a universal law? Could everyone go around stealing from everyone else? Answer: No There would be no such thing as property There would be no such thing as stealing Result: Stealing is wrong

  11. Second Maxim What is the end result? • Getting something that doesn’t belong to you. Do the ends justify the means? • Did the act violate someone’s freewill? • Answer: Yes, you didn’t ask if you could have the property. • Result: Stealing is wrong

  12. Third Maxim • Does the maxim apply to citizens? • No, no property • Does the maxim apply to rulers? • No, a ruler wouldn’t want citizens to steal from government • Result: Stealing is wrong

  13. Harder Cases Try your logic on these: KeepingPromises Charity Suicide

More Related