If I Caitlin Gaca Case Summary

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Option #1 I, Caitlin Gaca daughter of William and Joyce Gaca, granddaughter of Laura McGee, Niece of Dave Peatfield, will disregard telling my family about my health and financial problems. I will protect them by not worrying them with my problems, but will get things together for them if anything was to happen to me. Circumstances: Student completing tell one’s family about health and financial problems Aim: To protect and not make one worry, don’t tell anyone. Mean: Disregards what may happen, if doesn’t make the family worry. Could I, the moral decision-maker, will this maxim a universal law? Would I be Content to live in a world where this maxim is a moral requirement? Roles: Daughter: No, because I have no support from my family or not warning the family. Family Member: No, because wasn’t inform, or able to help. Parent: …show more content…

Who would be parents, family members, myself (daughter) with respect by informing everyone about my problems. Treat parents and family as beings with equal dignity by have the conversation about my problems. Therefore option #3 is morally permissible. If I were to choose the course of action I found morally permissible by correctly operating the Abstract Kantian Moral Decision-Procedure, and the Concrete Kantian Moral Decision Procedure would I be doing “duty for duty’s sake”? I have identified the Case number 4 into which my Resolution falls. Case number 4 is actions which accord with a duty but are contrary to some immediate inclination. We know it is for duty’s sake because there is no other motivation. Case number 4 is known to tests the will. Therefore, the agent does rise to the status of the good will. Do I have either a mediate or an immediate inclination to choose that action? I believe that it would be immediate inclination, because it’s for duty’s sake not for any other

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