Immamanuel Kant And Kant's Case Against Robert Latimer

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Before using the different ethical approaches of both designed philosophers, one should first approximate oneself to the objective facts or determined moral act which is been judged. In the particular case against Robert Latimer, we should first take a deep look over his whole moral decision content, his core motivation, means, and intention.
According to the judicial decision, he was found guilty of second-degree murder of his daughter Tracy, who suffered of several conditions, among those, CP or cerebral palsy that made her unable to be independent in all ways, besides causing multiple additional health issues, that produced a lot of extreme physical pain, and also psychological suffering, not just for Tracy, but also for her entire family. …show more content…

In this specific case the father of the severe ill child, took her life under acknowledgement of her intense pain and incurable health condition. For Kant, the good moral act is based on the ability and possibility of the universalization of a determined conduct or action that is led by a natural human Good Will. We can see Kant’s own thought condensed in some of today’s bioethical and medical deontology; being a normative ethical system, supported on the ideal of what should be (free choice field) more than what it is (nature and physics laws), we face the reality of death as part of life, and human life as value in itself. In fact, we have been witnessed dilemmas, so how medical codes have arisen, being more specific and involving in more complex we cannot just trust in a system based on a fixed code, but to analyze each case, from a set of universally accepted principles, stablish the basis of procedure, in the studied case for example in the best possible and merciful way to terminate the life of an extreme suffering human

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