Kant's Ethical System: Duty, Reason and Morality

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In Ethics Kant described his ethical system, which is based on a belief that the reason is the final authority for morality. Actions of any sort, he believed, must be undertaken from a sense of duty dictated by reason, and no action performed for suitability or merely in compliance to law or custom can be regarded as ethical. Kant described two types of commands given by reason. The first was hypothetical imperative, which dictates a given course of action to reach a specific end, and the categorical imperative, which dictates a course of action that must be followed because of its rightness and necessity. The categorical imperative is the basis of morality and was stated by Kant as "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through …show more content…

The first being hypothetical imperative reason. It is a method in which we try to attain an end such as happiness. The hypothetical imperative includes the ability to lie under certain circumstances when it is prudent. The hypothetical imperative also exerts heteronomy of the will, in that the will is following desire which is dictating to the will what to do. The categorical imperative requires the independence of the will, as the categorical imperative requires that we make choices to follow universal laws, and that we are not doing something because we will get something else from …show more content…

According to CNN “To pursue their career aspirations and to have biologically related children”, the two tech companies seem to have made the decision in good will because it is solely in the benefit of the employee. Through time and as statistics support women make up 50.8 percent of the U.S. population, they earn almost 60 percent of undergraduate degrees, and 60 percent of all master’s degrees. They earn 47 percent of all law degrees, and 48 percent of all medical degrees. They earn more than 44 percent of master’s degrees in business and management, including 37 percent of MBAs. They are 47 percent of the U.S. labor force, and 59 percent of the college-educated, entry-level workforce (Citation). Although they hold almost 52 percent of all professional-level jobs, American women lag substantially behind men when it comes to their representation in leadership positions because they are only 14.6 percent of executive officers, 8.1 percent of top earners, and 4.6 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs (; so for Apple and Facebook to take on the expenses for motivated women who are driven in their careers they seem to be deemed morally a good person and at good will. Regrettably this still doesn’t give their act a pass and

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