Assertion: categorical imperative's action | /r/HasProperty | right
Facets:
value: morally
type: DEGREE
value: as a matter of principle
type: MANNER
value: in other words
type: DEGREE
value: in virtue of their motives
type: CAUSE
value: in proportion
type: OTHER
value: precisely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Any action is right if it can coexist with everyone’s freedom in accordance with a universal law, or if on its maxim the freedom of choice of each can coexist with everyone’s freedom in accordance with a universal law” (MM 6:230).
text: If their value thereby becomes the source of the rightness of our actions — say, our actions are right
text: A person's actions are right or wrong, a person is morally worthy or lacks moral worth (i.e., is morally base).
text: A person's actions determine her moral worth, but there is more to this than merely seeing if the actions are right or wrong.
text: If the intended action passes each of the formulations it is a categorical imperative and thus is not only right, but a moral obligation.
text: As basis for morality, Mill believed that his principle of utility has a stronger intuitive grounding than Kant's reliance on reason, and can better explain why certain actions are right or wrong.
text: But Kant goes a step further and formulates a supreme rational principle that tells us precisely whether a specific action is right or wrong.
text: “Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.”
text: —actions are right only if they can coexist with everyone's freedom under this system according to a universal law. . . .
text: His philosophy is considered deontological---actions are morally right in virtue of their motives.
text: In other words, an action is morally right only if the maxim (or principle) represented by that action can be universally accepted as law.
text: Only if we take an action because we believe that action is morally right, as a matter of principle, will our motive qualify as moral.
text: An action is right if it can exist with everybody's freedom as a universal law (Metaphysics of Morals).
text: They do not appeal to experience to show that actions which maximize happiness are right.