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Kant's Rationale

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Kant stated that human beings are living by their own reason, own rationale. Moral responsibility requires our action to be free. Freedom is not just the ability to do what we want, when we want, it actually comes from reasoning and rationale. According to Kant it is necessary that human beings have free will, otherwise it will be unreasonable to hold people reasonable. Holding people responsible would not make sense without free will. It should not make any differences or changes in your thoughts by advertisement, brainwashing etc. Because freedom is not just you do whatever you want, it is actually from your own reason. For example, when we are hungry, we eat. It is automatically reasoning that hunger increases appetite, we tend to fulfil
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Kant’s notion of freedom connects to morality, which displays contrast between duty and inclination, explaining how only the motive of duty, doing the right thing for the right reason, confers moral worth of an action. Kant believes that everything in nature, including humans, “works in accordance with laws,” that all actions must be appointed by law, The formula of universal law that basically states how you should treat humanity as an end rather than as a means. He says we should only act upon the maxim, a principle that gives a reason for action, without contradiction. Davis claims that law is not always reliable when insuring justice; moreover, Kant can support

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In Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant does not presume to establish moral laws; he posits the basis for moral law itself. Through this process, Kant introduces the opposing concepts of heteronomy, laws provided externally for the individual, and autonomy, laws established via the application of reason. The implication arises that autonomy under Kant's definition is freedom, and that autonomy is a requisite for moral actions. To fully develop an understanding of this relationship it is crucial to deconstruct and integrate his notions of: will, duty, maxim, and imperative. Humans have the unique ability to perceive natural law, and imagine or will those forces to be different.

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“The notion of free will is indispensable to our choosing, deciding, and judging... This is the case with our apprehension of the ‘moral law’... Before any act I should ask myself: Would I approve if all men do this? Any action that can be universalized can be accepted as ethical” (p247 text). Without free will, people will lose the capacity to abide by “moral

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Kant is wrong in his argument, of the"Murderer at the Door" case, because what he is stating is absolutely illogical and has no human reasoning supporting it. " The Murderer at the Door" case is simply stating that if you lie to the murderer about where your friend is located, then it can cause your life to be altered, but then again, if you tell the murderer where your friend is, you are just as guilty as the murderer because you told the murderer the whereabouts of your friend. Since either way your life would be altered in both situations, are you really doing the right thing by telling the truth? Two objections from Hume include that morality is feeling, affect, or sentiment.

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Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, decision and action is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences. It dictates that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs. This has radical and far-reaching implications for morality, science, and religion. Free Will, determinism, moral responsibility and how they work together, or don’t, is an enormously complicated question.

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This is where our source of freedom comes from. It makes us as human beings aware of what we want. The proper understanding of free will is that our choices are not free from various influences, but we are free to make our own choices in the end. Peter van Inwagen argues that the very existence of moral responsibility entails the existence of free will.

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We think that we are free but are we really free? No! We all are ruled by one thing or other either its religion or politicians or Prince. Different Philosophers on their different writings explains their different thoughts and different points. One of the philosophers explains how people’s passions and freedom are ruled by so called practices and is against the morals created by religion and political powers which limits and manipulates human to do what they want to do.

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The act of free will exists, and since it exists, there must have been a time period in which the existence of the act of will did not exist and its prior existence leaves out the question of its existence beforehand, we must conclude that it is unknown whether the will existed before an individual act of willing.13 Since a being will remain indeterminate and is incapable of being determined until external concepts are used to independently determine the earlier nonexistence of the existing act of will. This entails that without an antecedently determining ground, there can be no concept of the movement from the prior nonexistence to the current existence of an act of will.14 When I will to write this paper and in order for this act to be contingent, it has to be possible that I do not will to write this paper. There needs to be a ground that determines the move from me either writing the paper or not writing this paper to the actuality that I write it. Kant concludes in The New Elucidation, that the libertarian concept is free will is clearly inferior to a compatibilist account in tune with the principle of determining

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He states “by the public use of one’s reason I understand the use of which a person makes of it as a scholar before the reading public. Private use I call that which may make of it in a particular civil post of office which entrusted to him.” Although he is aware of differences between these concepts, he points out the fact that the private usage of reason should be subjected to certain limitations, while the public usage of reason should be kept free, because “it alone can bring about enlightenment among men.” He gave many examples of this, such as the fact that “it would be disastrous if an officer on duty who was given a command by his superior were to question the appropriateness or utility of the order. He must obey.

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But what is the source of free will and moral responsibility? Schlick doesn’t give any unequivocal answer to this question. I think that moral responsibility depends on the scale of free will of a person and his attitude to the actions of other persons. In other words, our behaviour is the result of both our heredity and nature, and some outside factors which depend on our relation to other persons’

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Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another” Basically Kant wants to say that individual have a capacity to use its own reason and understanding to know the things rather then the guidance of the others. He belive that the obstacles or hinderences in the way of individuals went beyond self imposed obstacles. Freedom is the essncial part of

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The autonomy of will Kant had suggested a straight and demanding definition on what freedom is. Acting freely according our desire, our appetite is not freedom in a Kantian point of view. As mentioned above, Kant deny Bentham’s claim on pain and pleasure are our sovereign master since human had a rational capacity that distanced us and physical creatures that act merely according their appetites. This is what Kant called autonomy.

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Kant believes that most people know right from wrong; the problem most people have is not in knowing what is morally, but in doing it. Kant also argued that rightness or wrongness of particular acts is determined by rules; these rules could be determined by his principle of universalizability. He also argued reason require not only that moral duties be universal but also absolutely binding. For instance, when lying is the only option to save someone’s life, still we shall not lie for it is morally wrong to lie. Kant introduced categorical imperative which states that people ought to do something regardless of the consequences.

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