RE: Kant's imperative is good
July 22, 2022 at 6:02 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2022 at 6:08 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(June 11, 2022 at 8:49 am)Jehanne Wrote:(June 10, 2022 at 7:56 am)Interaktive Wrote: bible is bad
Kant's imperative is good
Christian Democrats should be in opposition
social democrats should be in power
Reading Kant gave me a headache. My understanding is that he wrote in opposition to David Hume?
I also have a lot of issues with Kant’s moral imperative. Must be my utilitarian upbringing.
The most well known objection is the ‘lying to a murderer’ scenario: Joe comes to you and says, ‘I’m going to murder Jim. Tell me where he is.’ In order to obey Kantian hypothetical moral imperatives (because they require truth-telling to be a universal obligation), you’d have to give up this information. As a utilitarian (greatest good for the greatest number), you have a moral obligation to lie to Joe to save Jim’s life and to keep Joe from going to prison for murder.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
