Immanuel Kant: Important 18th-century philosopher
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Immanuel Kant took morality pretty seriously. As a matter of fact, Kant was very religious. By the same token he knew that if we would take religion for our morality, we will not be getting the same answer. In contrast, morality is constant.
to distinguish between the distinct realms of phenomena and noumena. Phenomena are the appearances, which constitute our experience; noumena are the (presumed) things themselves, which constitute reality. – google
Kant truly belongs to the group of my personal favorite philosophers.
Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law
Immanuel Kant
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
Immanuel Kant
Kant was a moral absolutist. Moral absolutism affirms that there are specific universal moral beliefs by which all peoples’ actions may be judged. It is a kind of deontology.
Beauty and pleasure
sapere aude – durf te denken
Kant as a Kantian
what does it mean to be good? the good will to do good is always good. The way to do the right thing
newton
being rational beings is where moral comes from
vrijheid verplicht goed te doen. Autonoom te handelen
It’s not about the consequences that matter, it’s about doing them for the right reason
Hypothetical Imperatives
catigorical imperatives (the thing that you have to do all the time regardless of the circumstances)
Immanuel Kant on Being a moral being
-the univeralizeability principle
–what is to iniveralizable something
ends in ourselves
