1. Duty Ethics
Immanuel Kant
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2. Kant’s ethics were different
Consequences did not matter
Non-consequentalist or deontological
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3. Categorical Imperative
“Act only on the maxim (principle or
rule) whereby you can at the same
time will that it should become a
universal law.”
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4. Should you take coral from the reef?
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7. Do you have a moral duty to
tell the truth even if leads to
bad consequences?
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8. Video Clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh6NzOHOU8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAE7uOO_4v4
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9. Categorical Imperative #2
“Act in such as way that you treat humanity,
whether in your own person or in the person of
another, always as an end and never as a means.”
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10. What does it mean to treat
someone as an end, not as a
means?
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