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Kant's Presupposition Of Morality

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Anuradha Singh
Ethics
Fall 2014
Kant
“And since morality must be derived solely from the property of freedom, one must show that freedom is also the property of the will of all rational beings.” –Kant

Most of what Kant talked about was about morality and partly about freedom with morality. Kant was a philosopher of ethics but David Hume was the one that had “who awakened me from my philosophical slumber” (Solomon, Martin and Vaught), which at that point he wrote his volumes. Kant says that morality is not to be confused with self-interest (Solomon, Martin and Vaught). What he means by self-interest is doing anything for your own advantage and not caring for other people. Most of what we do in life is for other people. For Kant, the meaning of morality is duty, duty for the sake of duty (Solomon, Martin and Vaught). The explanation through Kant comes through two questions in this essay, why is freedom a presupposition of morality? And why should we help other people according to Kant? (Of course there are other parts to those questions.) Morality is our duty as stated by Kant. Morality/morals are a necessity; we need that duty to keep us going. If we didn’t have a type of duty we wouldn’t have a reason. Considering that reason to be good will, we do for others, but also do for ourselves/
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Kant uses a lot of biblical phrases or interpretations in his volumes. For the most part his categorical imperative is very similar to working with the rules that God told the people in the Bible, after all he is a Christian philosopher. Kant uses this categorical imperative to focus people on how to live with morals and work with them. Acting like how you would ask others to do, love you neighbor, a utopian dream of everyone being morally

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