This document summarizes key aspects of deontological ethics as presented by Immanuel Kant, William David Ross, and Thomas Hobbes. It discusses Kant's view that morality is based on duty and rationality rather than happiness, as defined by his Categorical Imperative. It also outlines Ross' idea of prima facie duties and moral intuitionism. Finally, it describes Hobbes' concept of the state of nature and war of all against all, and how this led to his theory of contractarianism where morality comes from agreements between rational individuals.
Topic: DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICAL THEORY
Contents:
A. Historical Origin
Early beginning of human civilization
• The word of the king is the law
Deontological
Greek word “dein” or “deon” meaning “To be obligated” or simply “duty”
B.Kants’ Major Contribution to Deontological Theory
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
• Avid defender of deontological theory
• Contributed as many important and brilliant ideas to the philosophical study of ethics
C.The Good Will: The Core of Kant’s Ethics
Morality of an action lies on the inner motive rather than the external effects
Kants’ ethics primarily based on good will
Duty must be done out of pure reverence to the moral law
D.Duty over Inclination
“A person is only acting morally only when he suppresses his feelings and inclinations and does that which he is obliged to do”
Inclination
means doing the things that one’s feels like doing, and thus no obligation exists.
Example:
Helping your neighbor to fix her flat tire.
• Three possible reasons of helping:
1) Expectation of the reward-immoral
2) Pity-immoral
3) Duty-moral
1 is done out of desire to get a reward and 2 is done out of emotion thus, the acts are considered immoral. On the other hand, 3 is done out of obligation and this makes the act moral.
E.Duty is Superior to Happiness
“Our duties cannot consist simply in following rules that promote pleasure and avoidance of pain as the utilitarian’s claim, since that would make right actions depend upon consequences, on how well they satisfied our desires”
Example:
1) Lying
2) Breaking promise
The above examples are immoral actions not because it can create bad consequences but because these are wrong in itself.
F.The Categorical Imperative: The Universalizability Principle
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”
Maxim is a personal and subjective guiding principle
We must universalize our moral judgement
G.The Principle of Humanity (Respect for Persons)
Also known as ’Principle of Ends’
Concerns respect for the dignity of persons
Rational beings are ends in themselves
Do not treat others as means
H.Autonomy of The Will (Kingdom of Ends)
“For without personal autonomy, Morality becomes an impossibility”
Autonomous will
The will becomes autonomous when the genuinely moral actions are chosen:
• Freely
• Rationally
• By The Self (Autonomously)
Kingdom of ends
It is a moral universe of the moral beings in which:
• Respect for Intrinsic Worth
• Respect for Value of All Persons
is exercised by everyone.
Morality is the differentiation of intentions,decisions and actions between those that are distinguised as proper and those that are improper.In other words,it is the disjunction between right and wrong.
Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosphy ,religion or culture ,or it can derive from a standard of that a person belives should be universal. Morality can also be called to be synonymous with “rightness” or “goodness”.
Topic: DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICAL THEORY
Contents:
A. Historical Origin
Early beginning of human civilization
• The word of the king is the law
Deontological
Greek word “dein” or “deon” meaning “To be obligated” or simply “duty”
B.Kants’ Major Contribution to Deontological Theory
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
• Avid defender of deontological theory
• Contributed as many important and brilliant ideas to the philosophical study of ethics
C.The Good Will: The Core of Kant’s Ethics
Morality of an action lies on the inner motive rather than the external effects
Kants’ ethics primarily based on good will
Duty must be done out of pure reverence to the moral law
D.Duty over Inclination
“A person is only acting morally only when he suppresses his feelings and inclinations and does that which he is obliged to do”
Inclination
means doing the things that one’s feels like doing, and thus no obligation exists.
Example:
Helping your neighbor to fix her flat tire.
• Three possible reasons of helping:
1) Expectation of the reward-immoral
2) Pity-immoral
3) Duty-moral
1 is done out of desire to get a reward and 2 is done out of emotion thus, the acts are considered immoral. On the other hand, 3 is done out of obligation and this makes the act moral.
E.Duty is Superior to Happiness
“Our duties cannot consist simply in following rules that promote pleasure and avoidance of pain as the utilitarian’s claim, since that would make right actions depend upon consequences, on how well they satisfied our desires”
Example:
1) Lying
2) Breaking promise
The above examples are immoral actions not because it can create bad consequences but because these are wrong in itself.
F.The Categorical Imperative: The Universalizability Principle
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”
Maxim is a personal and subjective guiding principle
We must universalize our moral judgement
G.The Principle of Humanity (Respect for Persons)
Also known as ’Principle of Ends’
Concerns respect for the dignity of persons
Rational beings are ends in themselves
Do not treat others as means
H.Autonomy of The Will (Kingdom of Ends)
“For without personal autonomy, Morality becomes an impossibility”
Autonomous will
The will becomes autonomous when the genuinely moral actions are chosen:
• Freely
• Rationally
• By The Self (Autonomously)
Kingdom of ends
It is a moral universe of the moral beings in which:
• Respect for Intrinsic Worth
• Respect for Value of All Persons
is exercised by everyone.
Morality is the differentiation of intentions,decisions and actions between those that are distinguised as proper and those that are improper.In other words,it is the disjunction between right and wrong.
Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosphy ,religion or culture ,or it can derive from a standard of that a person belives should be universal. Morality can also be called to be synonymous with “rightness” or “goodness”.
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AN
INTRODUCTION
TO THE
PRINCIPLES
OF
MORALS
AND
LEGISLATION
by
Jeremy Bentham
1781CHAPTER I.
OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY.
I. Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters,
pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as
well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right
and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to
their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think:
every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to
demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their
empire: but in reality he will remain. subject to it all the while. The
principle of utility[1] recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the
foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of
felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to
question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason,
in darkness instead of light.
But enough of metaphor and declamation: it is not by such means that moral
science is to be improved.
II. The principle of utility is the foundation of the present work: it will
be proper therefore at the outset to give an explicit and determinate
account of what is meant by it. By the principle[2] of utility is meant that
principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever.
according to the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the
happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same
thing in other words to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every
action whatsoever, and therefore not only of every action of a private
individual, but of every measure of government.
III. By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to
produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness, (all this in the
present case comes to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same
thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to
the party whose interest is considered: if that party be the community in
general, then the happiness of the community: if a particular individual,
then the happiness of that individual.
IV. The interest of the community is one of the most general expressions
that can occur in the phraseology of morals: no wonder that the meaning of
it is often lost. When it has a meaning, it is this. The community is a
fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as
constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is,
what is it? -- the sum of the interests of the several members who compose
it.
V. It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community, without
understanding what is the interest[3] of the individual. A thing is said to
promote the interest, or to be for the interest, of an individual, when it
tends to add to the sum total o.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGI.docxgalerussel59292
AN
INTRODUCTION
TO THE
PRINCIPLES
OF
MORALS
AND
LEGISLATION
by
Jeremy Bentham
1781CHAPTER I.
OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY.
I. Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters,
pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as
well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right
and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to
their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think:
every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to
demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their
empire: but in reality he will remain. subject to it all the while. The
principle of utility[1] recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the
foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of
felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to
question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason,
in darkness instead of light.
But enough of metaphor and declamation: it is not by such means that moral
science is to be improved.
II. The principle of utility is the foundation of the present work: it will
be proper therefore at the outset to give an explicit and determinate
account of what is meant by it. By the principle[2] of utility is meant that
principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever.
according to the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the
happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same
thing in other words to promote or to oppose that happiness. I say of every
action whatsoever, and therefore not only of every action of a private
individual, but of every measure of government.
III. By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to
produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness, (all this in the
present case comes to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same
thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to
the party whose interest is considered: if that party be the community in
general, then the happiness of the community: if a particular individual,
then the happiness of that individual.
IV. The interest of the community is one of the most general expressions
that can occur in the phraseology of morals: no wonder that the meaning of
it is often lost. When it has a meaning, it is this. The community is a
fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as
constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is,
what is it? -- the sum of the interests of the several members who compose
it.
V. It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community, without
understanding what is the interest[3] of the individual. A thing is said to
promote the interest, or to be for the interest, of an individual, when it
tends to add to the sum total o.
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2. DEONTOLOGY
Greek word :
“deon” – duty or obligation
“logos” – study
*refers to an approach to Ethics that focuses on
morality base on the actions themselves.
3. IMMANUEL KANT
BORN: April 22, 1724 -
Königsberg, Prussia
DIED: February 12, 1804
WORKS: Groundwork of a
Methaphysics of Morals, Critique of
Pure Reason
4. • Happiness
• ACTION = DESIRES/HAPPINESS
• DESIRES/HAPPINESS ≠
FREEDOM
• FREEDOM = RATIONALITY
• RATIONALITY = MORALITY
• MORALITY = DUTY
• DUTY = Objective MAXIM
*maxim – principle upon which
we act
HYPOTHETICAL
IMPERATIVE – Compels
action in a given
circumstance; Subjective
Maxim
CATEGORICAL
IMPERATIVE – Denotes an
absolute, unconditional
requirement that exerts its
authority in all
circumstances, both required
and justified as an end itself;
Objective Maxim
5. CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE:
1. FORMULA OF UNIVERSAL LAW:
“ACT SO THAT THE MAXIM OF YOUR ACTION CAN BE WILLED A UNIVERSAL
LAW”
2. FORMULA OF THE END IN ITSELF:
“ACT IN SUCH A WAY THAT YOU TREAT HUMANITY, WHETHER IN YOUR OWN
PERSON OR IN THE PERSON OF ANOTHER, ALWAYS AT THE SAME TIME AS
AN END AND NEVER SIMPLY AS MEANS.
3. FORMULA OF KINGDOM OF ENDS
“ACT AS IF YOU WERE THROUGH YOUR MAXIMS A LAW-MAKING MEMBER
OF MEMBER OF A KINGDOM OF ENDS.”
6. HAPPINESS
*Sensible happiness – inclinations; desires
*Moral Happiness – the capacity that opposes inclination with a
constant ‘will to power’
“WHEN THE THINKING MAN HAS TRIUMPHED OVER TEMPATIONS TO
VICE AND IS CONSCIOUS OF HAVING DONE HIS DIFFICULT DUTY, HE
FINDS HIMSELF IN A STATE OF SATISFACTION AND PEACE OF MIND
WHICH WE CAN CALL ‘HAPPINESS’.”
HAPPINESS = SENSE OF DUTY = DUTY =
MORALITY = RATIONALITY =ACTION
7. PRIMA FACIE DUTIES
SER WILLIAM DAVID ROSS
BORN: APRIL 15, 1877 – Thurso, Scotland
DIED: MAY 5, 1971
WORKS: The Right and the Good.
A duty that is binding (obligatory) other
things equal, that
It is overridden or trumped by another
duty or duties.
8. PRIMA FACIE
DUTIES
1. Fidelity
2. Reparation
3. Gratitude
4. Non-injury
5. Beneficence
6. Self-Improvement
7. Justice
MORAL INTUITIONISM
1. It tells us when one prima facie
rule, which at first seems to
apply, does not apply because
another rule overrides it.
2. Tells us what prima facie duties
are.
3. Tells us what the priority rules
are.
9. CONTRACTARIANISM
Right acts are those that do not
violate the free, rational
agreements we’ve made.
THOMAS HOBBES
BORN: APRIL 5, 1588
DIED: DECEMBER 4, 1679
Leviathan
10. STATE OF NATURE:
- Freedom – self-preservation
- Freedom x Security
STATE OF WAR:
- War against All
- The life of man is ‘SOLITARY,
POOR, NASTY, BRUTISH,
SHORT
- Every man against every man
‘Bellum omnium contra omnes’
1. ‘as long as this natural right of every
man to everything endureth, there can
be no security to any man, how strong
or wise soever he may be, of living out
the time which nature ordinarily
alloweth men to live. And consequently
it is precept, or general rule of reason:
that every man ought to endeavor
peace, as far as hope of obtaining it.
2. ‘That man be willing, when others are
so too, as far forth as for peace and
defense himself he shall think it
necessary, to lay down this right to all
things;
3. ‘That men perform their covenants
made.’
11. CONTRACT
MORALITY
- Agreement ; Contract
- Changeable
‘the mutual transferring of
right’
DEFECTION
breaking of the contract
The Commonwealth
‘therefore before the names of
just and unjust can have place,
there must be some coercive power
to complement equally to the
performance of their covenants, by
the terror of some punishment
greater than the benefit they expect
by the breach of their covenant, and
to make good that propriety which
by mutual contract men acquire in
recompense of the universal right.
12. IMMANUEL KANT SER W. D. ROSS THOMAS HOBBES
Rationality Moral Intuitionism
Rationality –
Contract
Moral Absolutism Pluralistic Contractarian
Categorical
Imperative
Prima facie Duties
Contract /
Agreement
DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS