AQA Kant and Deontological ethics A Level summary (Kantian ethics)

This PowerPoint is designed to use with students who need complete and concise notes on Kantian Deontological Ethics for their A Level exams

The Powerpoint covers the following areas:

• 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.

And also 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, e.g. love, friendship, kindness
• morality is a system of hypothetical, rather than categorical, imperatives (Philippa Foot).

My students found them really useful and they are written in a way to make sure the entire specification is covered as far as Kant is concerned.

Any questions just ask and thanks for taking a look :)