Question

o Kantian ethics What are the fundamental claims of the theory? What values underlie the theory? Who are the primary theorists associated w/the theory? What principles are associated w/the theory?

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Kantian ethics:it was given by the immanuel kant he is most influential philospherrs in the history of western philosophy, kant acknowledge that he had despised the ignorant masses until he read Rousseau and came to appreciate the worth that exists in every human beings kant insisted that actions resulting from desires cannot be free., the fundamenal claims of the theory refers to the deontological ethical theory by kant , it is developed as a result of enlightment rationalism and based on the view that the only intrinsically good things is a good will an action can only be good if its maxim the principle behind it is duty to the moral law and this moral law is the categorical imperative it states that acts on all people regardless of their interests or desires, the values underrlie the theory is the the value of persons makes them deserving of moral respect and refers to as the respect for persons theory of morality, the principle associated with Kantian ethics are categorical imperative according to the kant it is having 3 formulation first formulation is the formula of universality and the law of nature : it shows us that act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law, the second formulation is the formula of humanity: it is the act insuch a way that you treat humanity whether in your own person or in the person of any other never merely as ameans to an end but always at the same time as an end, the thirdformulation of catrgorical imperative is the kingdom of ends formulation : act according to maxims of a universally legislating member of a merely possible kingdom of ends.