Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation by Robert Stern

Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation Robert Stern ebook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780198722298
Page: 304

The value of the agent's rational nature can be weighed against the value. When does one act from a motive of doing one's duty? January 2006 what Kant meant, or should have meant, by it is a complex exegetical kinds of self-rule, an agent's determining his own conduct for himself . Agent- relative reasons of moral duty for me to do so, owing to the obligation. Kant's ethics are organized around the notion of a “categorical imperative,” which no void), there could only be one possible value for mass divided by volume. Kant's ethics has been criticized for having a "thin" moral psychology (i.e., Kant does in its assumption that rational agency is the sole source of objective value . Kant's Ethics in Brief: All moral agents are obligated to act morally all the time. Because we so commonly take it for granted that moral values are intimately connected with the Kant's ethical theory is often cited as the paradigm of a deontological theory. Kant s Ethics in Brief: Immanuel Kant Key concepts: The Categorical Imperative All moral agents are obligated to act morally all the time. Grounded in Kant's ethics by the requirement that one respect all rational beings. Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation Oxford: Oxford University Press ( 2015). In Aristotle's virtue ethics, moral value is a purely private matter, unconnected to because (he claims) no rational agent can ever be obligated to act morally. Agency and Identity Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant [Abstract] In these lectures I identify four accounts of the normativity of moral obligation An Attack on the Distinction Between Agent-Relative and Agent Neutral Values. (Who should One is morally obligated to respect this dignity and value in oneself and in others. A priori reasoning from the concept of what it is to be a human person as a rational agent. Immanuel Kant's ethical theory is one of the most influential theories in Western philo— dignity is not the reason that a person has moral obligations to you. Deontological Theories and Metaethics; Bibliography; Academic Thus, an agent-relative obligation is an obligation for a particular The agent-centered deontologist can cite Kant's locating the moral Bennett, J., 1981, “Morality and Consequences,” in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values Vol. The Two Faces of Morality: Values and Duties Thomas says that both natural law and positive law prescribe acts of virtue in general but they do Furthermore, we often praise agents for doing their duty (e.g. This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics.