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Kantian Ethics
Quick revise
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) presented a Deontological argument so in his theory the ACTION is what establishes the morality/duty - you establish your duty and then do it
Kant said that moral statements are not like normal statements.
- Normal statements are either a priori analytic (they are knowable without experience and verifiable through reason) or they are a posteriori synthetic (knowable through experience and verifiable through experience).
- For Kant, moral statements are a priori synthetic – you can know something is moral without experience, and it can be checked with experience.
