Categorical Imperative Vs Reciprocity

A night after the football game heading though the parking lot and beggar was encounter of asking for money to buy food. John’s consider to giving the money to him but was repressed by feeling an obligation to not give the beggar money. The ideal Principal that holds John’s outcome in place is “Categorical Imperative” which helps forms the idea of why John choice not to give the money. Also how he went about and came up with the outcome of not giving the beggar money. To show further expiation of the scenario what will be discussed will start at the encounter and how it was looked at. Next, a view on how the approach that he takes can wager on the outcome and how the event can plan out. Finally, finishing off with the over outcome of his

Actual duties is Reciprocity; the definition for this concept is an individual makes an ethical decision based on a duty to treat others how they would want to be treated. John actually looks upon this term in this quote; “If I was that desperate, I would want someone to help me out”. Here he’s putting himself in the man’s shoes if he was in that kind of predicament he would want another by passer to assist him.
The concept seen after Reciprocity is Categorical Imperative; the definition for this concept is an individual makes an ethical decision that benefits themselves, others, or society. The way this term is shown is what he thought to himself; “I would feel good about myself” in this term his using the fact of giving the money to the man isn’t for the beggar’s benefit but for himself to have that feeling that he did something good that day. But, he realizes what he was doing and stopped himself for following though with that idea.
The next concept seen is Teleological ethics, with having the definition as; An individual makes an ethical decision to bring a about a positive end result for others, self, and or society. This is see though a decision of John on how he wants the beggar to have as seen in this quote; “bring about a good outcome for him”. As to thinking of this he is stating that he wants the man to actually be having a more positive outcome for his

This concept is seen in thought and an predicting one of John thoughts, “if he’s lying and was going to use the money for drugs or booze”. Here is where John actually starts to complexly question the fact of giving the beggar money because of not knowing the man and the honest of the man actually using the money for that reason.
The last concept seen is the lesser of evils, with following the definition as two events that outweigh one another based on the one containing to do the least amount of harm. John looks at his actions carefully of what their outcome both could become as from a quote; “instead of feeling good about myself, I would come to hate myself”. Looking at this is saying that to weigh out the fact of having the mindset that he did good felt like a better person he instead realizes that his mindset can lean towards that way and decides to keep the money and moves on with his