Saturday, January 26, 2013
Deontological Ethics: Kant
In The Moral Law, Kant is looking for a universal moral law that everyone can live by. He says that in a post-Darwinian world, people want to explain the moral law through anthropology; explaining it through scientific reasoning. One of the things he spends time talking about is the fact that you cannot have good will without reason, because reason was made to guide good will. My question, then is, is it possible to follow/think through reason but still act upon what you think instinctively? Isn't that what people do anyways, follow their instincts even after reasoning through the situation?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I agree with you about people mostly following their instincts even after reasoning through something. I think this could be a cultural issue. In our culture, people tell us to "trust our instinct" and so people do just that, while perhaps ignoring all reason.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you Avani. I feel as though learning to control of "instincts" is difficult because we often don't spend time contemplating ways to redirect or refocus our natural instincts because they are "natural".
ReplyDelete