This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Kantian Deontological Ethics” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information:
Immanuel Kant’s account of what is meant by a ‘good will’.
The distinction between acting in accordance with duty and acting out of duty.
The distinction between hypothetical imperatives and categorical imperatives.
The first formulation of the categorical imperative (including the distinction between a contradiction in conception and a contradiction in will).
The second formulation of the categorical imperative.
Issues, including:
clashing/competing duties
not all universalisable maxims are distinctly moral; not all non-universalisable maxims are immoral
the view that consequences of actions determine their moral value
Kant ignores the value of certain motives, eg love, friendship, kindness
morality is a system of hypothetical, rather than categorical, imperatives (Philippa Foot).
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