ETHICS: BSA-1B

Kantian
DEONTOLOGY
Immanuel Kant

Eseque, Jeverine C. Isleta, Denisse Elaine Marie C. Hinayas, Angel Keiyth

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IMMANUEL KANT DEONTOLOGY

CONSEQUENTIALISM IMPERATIVES
 Big Thinker:
IMMANUEL KANT
(1724–1804)

He was considered as one of

the most influential
philosophers in the 18th
century.
He was the mind behind the
Deontological Ethics.
Kant's contribution to ethics
was his insistence that one's
actions possess moral worth
only when one does his duty
for its own sake.
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This states that we do moral acts because they

introduce are good-in-themselves – not because they

cause good consequences.

DEONTOLOGY It is a duty-based, not a consequential-based.

The name comes from the Greek word

OGY “deon”, meaning duty or obligation.

TOL

ON
DE Ethical theory that distinguishes from right
or wrong.
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RIGHT ACTIONS WRONG ACTIONS

are ones we ought to do we ought not to do are morally
are morally required to do forbidden from doing
is said to have priority over the Good
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IMPERATIVE
Serves as the commander or order.

H Y P O T H E T I C A L C A T E G O R I C A L
I M P E R A T I V E I M P E R A T I V E

contingent command A genuinely moral imperative would not

It’s conditional on a person’s wants, be contingent on wants, desires, or needs,
needs, or desires and normally and this is what is meant by a categorical
comes in the following form: “If you imperative. A categorical imperative,
want/need A, then you ought to do B.” instead of taking an if-then form, is an
absolute command, such as, “Do A,” or “You
ought to do A.”
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I M P E R A T I V E

"act only in accordance with that maxim through which

you can at the same time will that it become a universal
law without contradiction"
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Agent-Centered
Branches of Deontological Theory
DEONTOLOGICAL
ETHICS Patient-Centered
Deontological Theory
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Agent-Centered
Deontological Theory

Aslo often called, "Deontological Constraints"

Focuses on the obligation and permission of the agent or relative
The duties are limited to the power of of the things that you shall do.
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Patient-Centered
Deontological Theory

Focuses on the rights of the people.

Are rights-based rather than duty-based.
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Does not require weighing the

Strengths of consequences or benefits of the
action.

DEONTOLOGY People in society strive to be morally

perfect.
Creates certainty
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Weaknesses of Lack of concern towards the

outcome.
DEONTOLOGY Does not include self-defense ideas.
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what is
CONSEQUENTIALISM
is an ethical theory that judges whether or not something is right by what its
consequences are.
result-based
Proposed by John Stuart Mill- an English philosopher who is also known for his
Utilitarianism.
Greatest Happiness Principle
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HOW DOES DEONTOLOGY DIFFER FROM

CONSEQUENTIALISM?

VS
 ASSESSMENT
1. These are morally required to do.
2. He proposed the Consequentialism Theory.
3. Theory that focuses on duties rather than the consequences.
4. We have the obligations that give us agent-relative reasons for
action.
5. The ethical theory judges whether or not something is right by
what its consequences are.
6. “If you want A, then you ought to do B.”
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7. These are rights-based rather than duty-based.
8-9. Enumerate the two types of imperatives.
10. He believes that there are natural laws that will guide us in our
action.
11. These are morally forbidden to do so.
12-13. Give two advantages of Deontology.
14-15. Give two disadvantages of Deontology.
 Immanuel Kant
DEONTOLOGY
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but
how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness”

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