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AS Religious Ethics

AS Religious Ethics. Revision Deontology & Kant. DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS. based on the idea that an act’s claim to being right or wrong is independent of the consequences of that action. As opposed to. TELEOLOGICAL ETHICS. bases its judgements on the outcome of the action or its consequences.

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AS Religious Ethics

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  1. AS Religious Ethics Revision Deontology & Kant

  2. DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS • based on the idea that an act’s claim to being right or wrong is independent of the consequences of that action.

  3. As opposed to

  4. TELEOLOGICAL ETHICS • bases its judgements on the outcome of the action or its consequences.

  5. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY • Based on rationalism and empiricism

  6. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY BUT

  7. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY • thought that the rationalists claimed too much for reason, and the empiricists emphasised sense experience too much

  8. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY • So, he went for a compromise!

  9. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY • all our knowledge of the world comes from sensation

  10. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY BUT

  11. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY • Reason determines howwe perceive the world around us!

  12. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY We perceive the world initially in timeand space

  13. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY • These two ‘forms of intuition’ precede any experience that we might have

  14. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY • People are aware of a moral law at work within them

  15. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY NOT as a vague feeling of something being right or wrong

  16. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY But as a direct experience of something powerful

  17. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me

  18. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY We have a moralobligation to act in a certain way

  19. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY DUTY

  20. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY His exploration of what is good began with the good will

  21. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY The attributes of the mind that are considered desirable can also be subverted into something bad

  22. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY These desirable mental attributes (intelligence, wit, and so on) and the desires of most people for fame and fortune are held in check by the good will.

  23. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY Thus, the good will is essential for happiness

  24. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY Kant rooted the moral choice in the will of the agent – we are each responsible for our own actions!

  25. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY The exercise of a person’s free will in an action becomes the basis on which that action is judged.

  26. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY He believed that the senses (happiness or pleasure) could not be the source of moral choice (and thus rejected teleological theories)

  27. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY He considered the reasons a person might have for carrying out an act

  28. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY • Which is why you have to learn his example of the ‘honest’ shopkeeper!

  29. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY Kant argued that we follow a moral command because we feel that it is our DUTY

  30. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY But how do we know what our duty is?

  31. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY The Categorical Imperative!

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