DUTY Ethics - These lectures will help you ace the midterm and final exams, I got an A as PDF

Title	DUTY Ethics - These lectures will help you ace the midterm and final exams, I got an A as
Author	Caroline Gomez
Course	Moral/Ethical Dimension Of Bus
Institution	St. John's University
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These lectures will help you ace the midterm and final exams, I got an A as the final grade...

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DUTY ETHICS (Deontological Ethics)

Treat people as ends, not just means

“Act so that you treat humanity…always as an end and never as a means only.” --Kant

Kant’s Justification of Respect Principle

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Humans ought to be respected because they have dignity

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Dignity=the autonomy to make ethical decisions for oneself

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Humans are beyond price—they have dignity; most animals do not

Why Do People Have Dignity?

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Most people are capable of autonomy and self-government

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They are therefore responsible

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Some humans are not capable of autonomy or self-government (young children, severe dementia, some disabled people, etc.)

Causal determinism

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The view that the state of the world at a given time determines the state of the world at the next moment

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Every event that occurs, including human action, is entirely the result of earlier causes [event causation]...