Immanuel Kant: Stealing Goes Against The Conscience

Humans since the beginning of time have always had the desire gain more items than their neighbors. Humans will also commit immoral actions to gain more items, an example of this is stealing but humans will also try to "justify" their actions with a reason this is know as trivialization. We will be looking at how trivialization goes against the common good and how it misinforms our conscience by looking at keys points such as the ethicist Immanuel Kant, how this bad decision goes against the three senses of the conscience, and how this action goes against the church's teachings.

To understand how stealing goes against the good we will be looking at the theories of human ethics according to Immanuel Kant. "What is this "good will?" For Kant

The first sense that stealing goes against a healthy conscience is a Conscience as a capacity to recognize right and wrong. "All people in all cultures have a general awareness that some things are right and others are wrong. The fact that individuals and societies may disagree about what is right only helps to show that all people have the capacity to know the good." (ISOG Pg54). Stealing goes against this sense because people all around the world know that stealing is wrong because it is illegal and it goes against the common good, and same thing with muder everyone knows that killing someone is illegal. The next reason why stealing goes against the good is because your conscience is a process of moral reasoning. "You need to search out in each situation what is the right thing to do. To act according to your conscience, you must seek to learn the fact, to learn what moral values are, to reason correctly in moral matters." (ISOG Pg54). Your conscience knows moral reasoning so your conscience knows that stealing is wrong and your conscience is telling you to not steal from that store but you decide to steal anyway which makes your action immoral. Finally stealing from the store is wrong because your conscience is the final judgment. " Your conscience is incomplete until you act on it. After examining all the factors you still need to make a judgment and a decision and commitment to do what is right." (ISOG Pg54). Not listening to your conscience even though you have all these factors telling you that stealing is wrong and that naturally your conscience wants to pick the right decision and by not listening to it proves that your action goes against the