Lecture 1 Ethics



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Ethics PHIL 2203 NOTES
7: Jan 30 – Kant
Slide 8 – review
How to apply the rule – how do we do it Broad principle – categorical imperative
Do not commit suicide
Is it permissible to commit suicide (according to kant) → can’t dispose of the humanity in your own person When you kill yourself, you are denying your own humanity, and you can’t do that.


Do not lie

add other from slide 7 of feb 4 lecture
Kant → using the other human being as a means to your end only. You are interfering with their rationality by not giving them all the facts (you can’t pay them back. This would not bean end the other person would choose for himself, so you are using him as an end. He would never agree if he knew you were lying. Not respecting the other personas a reasonable human being dehumanizing them

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