Duty and Agency: Autonomy PDF

DUTY AND AGENCY Deontology ========== - the moral theory that evaluates actions that are done because of duty. - comes from the greek word \"dean\" which means \"being necessary\" - refers to the study of duty and obligation Immanuel Kant ============= - was a German enlightenment...

DUTY AND AGENCY Deontology ========== - the moral theory that evaluates actions that are done because of duty. - comes from the greek word \"dean\" which means \"being necessary\" - refers to the study of duty and obligation Immanuel Kant ============= - was a German enlightenment philosopher who wrote one of the most important works on Moral philosophy. - developed revolutionary insights concerning the human mind and the conditions for the possibility of knowledge. Groundwork toward a Metaphysics of Morals ========================================= - - - - - Rationality =========== \- consist of mental faculty to construct ideas and thoughts that are beyond our immediate surroundings. - people are also rational ========================== - capacity for mental abstraction which arises from the operations of faculty of reason. - ability to stop and think about what we are doing. - we imagine different and better world and create mental images of how interact with other people in that world we live in - we do not only have the capacity to imagine and construct mental images but we also have the ability to act on to enacts mental images. - ability to enact our thoughts is the basis for national will. - first construction consist in how we imagine things can be then implement that in second construction. - through imagination and reflection we conceive of how we could affect possibly even change we live in. Rational ======== - refers to the faculty go intervene in the world, to act in a manner that is consistently with our reason. - animals only act according to impulses base on their natural instinct. - animals \"act\" with immediacy Latin ( \" i + medius\" ) no middle - they only react to external and intemal pulses. - have reasons which intervenes between impulse and act. - we have ability to stop and think about what we are doing - conceiving of ways to act according to certain rational principles - ability of a person to act based on their inventions and mental states. AUTONOMY ======== AUTOS--- \"Self\'  HETEROS --- ===================================================