Strengths And Weaknesses Of Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant is known worldwide as a very influential person, especially in the field of philosophy and ethics. His beliefs were based off of treating other humans with dignity and being morally rational. Morality according to Immanuel Kant can be defined primarily as doing what any morally responsible person would do and respecting other individuals. With his Theory-Enhanced Definition of Morality, I encountered a difficult moral situation in which I am deemed as acting immoral by my definition of morality. There are many strength’s and a few weaknesses with the definition of morality that I have concerning Kants’ Theories. A few strengths is the fact that it can improve business with a more positive outlook and brighten someone else’s day

His thought was for an individual to think about how the ideal human behaves and what they do that is morally responsible, then how could you act to match them and also be morally responsible. He believed that the righteous path for a person would be to feel empathy about others and have other people in his thoughts while making decisions. As a morally responsible person, he believed that one must not use other people as a “stepping stool” in their lives. A stepping stool meaning someone they use in order to raise him or herself higher within work, life, and even mental consciousness. Instead of using others to raise yourself, Immanuel Kant believed that the best way to achieve greatness was to do it by yourself and with your own hard work being put forth. This way, you achieve greatness and advance with your own dignity that will grow. Rather than, if you used someone else to climb higher, you would be degrading your dignity. Thus, your self worth increases because you achieved this step by yourself and with your own effort being put towards

She was therefore able to get free tickets into the Aquarium. After me and some other kids had realized this, we decided it would be beneficial for us to befriend him. But not necessarily to actually be his friend, but rather for us to gain free tickets. Which is where this problem could should immoral behavior. We were morally incorrect within this situation and were acting only for our own benefit. In this situation, I would define myself as being immoral because of my definition. I was not treating him respectfully because I was planning on only using him in order to be able to get in to the Shedd Aquarium at no cost. I also was using him, technically as a stepping stool, because I did not plan on having plans with him other than getting in to the Aquarium. I know that if he or someone was doing this to me, and I was able to get free tickets, I would feel hurt and disrespected by this. I would not feel dignified if I was treated that way which shows that my actions were not moral and I did not do the right thing in that situation. Rather than actually befriending him and acting kind to him, I was using him in order to benefit myself. In the end, he did find out what me and the other kids actually wanted which hurt his dignity since he felt betrayed that people he thought were his friends, actually were not. I had disrespected him and not