Assertion: categorical imperative's action | /r/HasProperty | moral
Facets:
value: regardless of their immediate consequences
type: OTHER
value: by kant's definition
type: OTHER
value: in itself
type: OTHER
value: performed without ulterior motives
type: OTHER
value: because of its consequences
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Consequently there is no vacillating in individual cases to determine whether an action is moral or not.
text: It resonates with my moral sensibilities to consider that actions are moral or immoral regardless of their immediate consequences.
text: The Categorical Imperative was devised by Immanuel Kant to provide a set of requirements a maxim (or motivation) must pass in order for the action to be considered a moral obligation.
text: Kant instructs that to determine if an action is a moral duty one must,
text: The best way to think about it is, categorical imperative means that for an action to be considered moral than that action must be moral enough for it to become universal law and every other person would be allowed to do it.
text: An action is moral in itself not because of its consequences but because any rational being wills it to be a universal law
text: Utilitarianism outlines that an action is moral if it increases the total happiness of society.
text: It resonates with my moral sensibilities to consider that actions are moral or immoral regardless of their immediate consequences.
text: How do we determine whether an action is moral?
text: Similarly, modern people tend to hold that all actions are moral if they can somehow be said to enhance survival.
text: The Categorical Imperative is a test to make sure our actions are moral.
text: This is essentially a way of determining whether the action is moral, regardless of the consequences.
text: The best way to think about it is, categorical imperative means that for an action to be considered moral than that action must be moral enough for it to become universal law and every other person would be allowed to do it.
text: Categorical imperative argued that an action or rule is moral if it is universally good.
text: He further contends that actions are moral if and only if they are performed without ulterior motives, with no attention to consequences, and out of pure respect for morality.
text: An action is moral, said Kant, only if one has no desire to perform it, but performs it out of a sense of duty and derives no benefit from it of any sort, neither material nor spiritual; a benefit destroys the moral value of an action.
text: This imperative says the only actions that are moral are those which can be universalised w/o contradiction.
text: Kant believes that those actions carried out by using categorical imperatives are moral because they are done for the sake of one’s duty without regard for desire or
text: The virtue of dutifulness is at the heart of Kant’s moral argument: an action is moral only if it is done out of duty, not out of sympathy, pleasure or a desire for personal happiness.
text: It is essentially a test by which to show if an action is moral or not.
text: We can never know by simple observation whether any particular action is moral by Kant's definition, because we can never observe precisely the intentions motivating it, even in ourselves.
text: They would then have no reason not to perform immoral actions, especially since the person cannot even reason that the actions are immoral.
text: (1724-1804) way of devising a set of requirements that a maxim (or motivation) has to pass through in order for an action to be considered a moral obligation.