I advocate that justice can be served to morality, even if the consequences of an action are dismissed. ... The good intent determined the morality of the action and not the result. ... Kant asserts that one's will must only act upon the "universal law," which is void of human feeling and emotion. ... Kant's first formulation states that you should "act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should be a universal law" (886). ... Thus, justice can be served to morality without considering the results. ...

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Part two was split into different parts explaining the general principles of morality including a theory of law and morality in particular, including individual virtues and vices. ... Thomas Aquinas' theory of morality and law set a precedent for a new European law The revival Roman Law was the last part of medieval synthesis. Roman Law contained the universal principles crucial to medieval synthesis. ... Irnerius changed the roman law to fit to the new medieval age. Roman Law influenced church law which was derived from the bible. ...

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A fundamental part of natural law is the existence of absolute and unchanging values of right and wrong. ... As a result, it can be claimed that natural moral law cannot be applied to issues of business ethics. ... Both the Aristotelian and Thomist forms of natural moral law are concerned with human purpose as a whole. ... Therefore, applying natural moral law can be both useless and dangerous for modern businesses. ... Natural moral law presents an outdated and subjective view of morality. ...

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The goal of the Grounding or the Metaphysics of Morals is to establish the "supreme principle of morality". ... Morality requires us to separate our rationality from our nature and act solely on the basis of logical principles. ... A secure understanding of morality must be based on "pure" concepts of reason. ... When one thinks of what they ought to do they base their reason in their morality, moral laws. Kant's moral law is reason and moral laws are suppose to be undertaken for the sake of morality alone; we are suppose to have a pure motivation and not self-interested. ...

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This is why man named these rules - laws. ... So it is clear to make the distinction that for a society to be free it needs law to govern it. ... The law gives us this protection and enables us to deal with all problems of mankind and reach a solution for what is the law but a way to conduct ourselves and be able to ascertain the good against the bad. Finally Fuller in his book The Morality of Law explains that "at a basic level, law involves the morality of duty. ... So we must realize that we as human beings determine the fate which gives us the freedom to conduct our lives in a civilized...

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Kant identified categorical imperative as the foundational principle of morality. ... The other main formulation of categorical imperative develops the idea that morality does not permit you to use people. ... Kant thought that unless there is something that can supply an answer, morality is a sham (Rosenstand, 223). ... The first states, "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature" (Ming, Online). ... And finally the third command says, "So act as if you were through your maxims a law-making member of a kingdom of ends" (Ming, Online). ...

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Criticisms of the ethics of duty include moral minimalism which argues that emphasis is not placed on morality. ... The lying example discuss the possibility of universalizing a maxim that permits lying, which raises the question of consistency with the universal law of humanity, that our action is always universal. Lying is not consistent with the universal law because it undermines itself, destroying the rational expectation of trust upon which it depends. ... In conclusion Kant helped us see clarity in, the admirability of acting from duty, the evenhandedness of morality and respecting ...

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Aristotle wrote that "Now when a person kills himself in a fit of anger, he acts voluntarily in violation of right reason; and that the law does not permit. ... Though this may seem reasonable for the mentality ill, and physically sick, it goes against Kantian ethics, and the laws of nature. Kant argues that "to destroy the subject of morality in his own person is tantamount to obliterating from the world, as far as he can, the very existence of morality itself; but morality is, nevertheless, an end in itself" (Kant: 84). ...

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In order for humans to make a choice morality has to be involved in free will. ... God gave us laws for guidance for our actions, and left the rest for humans to act as there own agents and choose to follow or not to follow those laws. ...

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Virtue, morality, immortality, death, and the difference between the soul and the body are just a few of the many different topics that can be covered under the huge umbrella of philosophy. ... Socrates obeyed the law of Athens but did not get involved with politics. ... Socrates' friends planned his escape from prison, but he preferred to comply with the law and die for his cause. ...

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Major theistic religions see God as a lawgiver who creates laws for us to obey. ... Thomas Aquinas realized this and connected morality with religion in a different way which gave rise to the Theory of Natural Law. ...

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A moral judgment is a judgment based upon ethics. Ethics is a branch of moral philosophy. Emotion characterizes a moral judgments. Religion also characterizes moral judgments. Moral judgments differ from other judgments because reason cannot be applied to them. Emotion is a major factor that c...

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Kantian and Divine Command Theory The term 'autonomy', from the Greek roots 'autos' and 'nomos' [self + law] refers to the right or capacity of individuals to govern themselves. ... For Kant, autonomy functions as the ability to know what morality requires of us, rather than as the freedom to pursue our ends. ...

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