Importance Of Consistency And Impartial Rationality

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Often, an important question in ethics is how important is consistency and impartial rationality? I believe consistency and being impartial are important because it gives us a basis of how to act morally in a universal way. His ethics doesn 't allow us to be impartial towards our friends or family because he negates emotion. Our actions are to be completely selfless and pure. Kant believes the value of actions cannot come from their consequences because we do not know whether the outcome will be bad or good. If we are doing an action for the good, it shouldn’t matter whether or not the end was good too. If you try to save a drowning kid, you might get there too late, but you still tried your best to do so. The motivation for the action is important to distinguish between the good and bad. People are motivated by different "ends". An example of this is that food is "good" to someone starving, but it might not be good to …show more content…

This "test" shows us what is right versus what is wrong, but it often ignores what we need to do. So, when looking at examples like whether we should fight in the war or stay with our dying mother, it doesn 't help us decide which is better. An example of the categorical imperative that we discussed in class is borrowing money knowing that you will never be able to repay it. You lie and say you will be able to at a different future date. So, the maxim would be making a lying promise. The next step would be checking whether this is universalizable or not. We assume this is not because if everyone lied and no one kept their word, we wouldn 't have trust in each other. It does not work as a universal rule. By lying, we are taking away the authority of making a promise. It would no longer have worth to

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