Kant's Ethical Theory Analysis

This paper will highlight Kant’s ethical theory that is presented in his book Foundations of a Metaphysic Morals. Kant wanted to establish an ethical system anyone can figure out regardless of sexual orientation, religion, race etc. Kant’s ethical “specialty” is deontology the study of duty. This paper explains want duty is, and all the other factors that goes along with this ideology. I will be presenting two different examples and explaining how Kant would approach the situation using his beliefs. Those examples will be used to help support the following position that Kant’s methods of establishing duties is unsuccessful. Jessica had just gotten her heart broken by Jason, she just could not accept the thought of not being with him. So, she knew this guy Zack had been crushing on her for a while now, she though that asking him out, and Jason seeing her with a new guy would make him jealous and want her back. Of course, Zack said yes, and Jessica was sure that …show more content…
Kant does a good job of establishing that you cannot make exceptions to rules you want others to follow, and you cannot treat people like things. Kant’s ethical theory does have respect for people and doing the right thing simply because they are doing the right thing. The examples I gave were people not doing the right thing and failing the maxim making them not okay for the world. However, the aspects of the dilemma that were problematic were how exactly should the maxim be created, what is too broad of a maxim or what is to narrow. Also, consequences did not matter, for the first example Skylar had an ideal of what was happening with her friend but choose not to stop it. Kant’s ethical theory dose a good job of caring for people, just not every aspect of each party involved in the situation under certain