Now that I’ve covered all
of the Kantian ethics, here are some criticisms to his very controversial
ethical theories and guidelines for judging one’s acts as moral or immoral. One
criticism that was mentioned in Philosophy the Basics was that Kantian ethics
only provided the framework in showing the structure of moral judgment. It’s
never brought to light what someone should do if two duties conflict with each
other. A similar criticism was that parts of his ethical theories seem to
justify some absurd actions. That follows along the same path as what to do if
two duties conflict with each other. Another criticism, which is probably the
most common criticism many people, such as myself, share is that some certain
emotions, such as remorse, guilt, and compassion, play major roles into whether
an act is immoral or moral. Many people actually categorize these emotions as
distinctive moral emotions, or in other words these emotions are there to
specifically help us act in a more moral way. The final criticism that I will
address is about not taking consequences into account when deciding whether an
act was morally right or wrong. While it isn’t always right to place blame on
someone who didn’t intentionally mean to mess something up or do
someone/something harm, some consequences of acts, whether intentional or not,
still can’t and shouldn’t be overlooked. These criticisms are some of the more
common criticisms to Kantian ethics. Now, for my final post, I would like to
discuss what drew me to report on Kantian ethics and how I agree and disagree
with some of the aspects in it.
To
Be Continued…
If you click this link, http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/keywords/kant
, it will take you to the University of Oxford’s podcasts and it is all
podcasts on Kant, but number 6 is the one that most relates to my topic!!
Enjoy!
Calvin's "I don't mean for EVERYONE" is about as good an argument for Kantian universalizability as there is!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Oxford link, Megan. Good job with your presentation, too.
Thank you for working with me and all the feedback! It helped me throughout my blog posts!
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