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A 5 page paper discussing Kant's categorical imperative and Mill's utilitarianism. Of all the philosophies that have come down to us from previous centuries, those of Kant and Mill may be the most consistently applicable to the present day. Both allow for decision making based on facts and conditions and are not constrained by social mores that change with time. Thus they remain relevant for all time and remain greatly useful even today. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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all the philosophies that have come down to us from previous centuries, those of Kant and Mill may be the most consistently applicable to the present day. Both allow
for decision making based on facts and conditions and are not constrained by social mores that change with time. Thus they remain relevant for all time and remain greatly
useful even today. Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) wrote that several events led to his
awakening and allowed him to become a critical philosopher, "synthesizing the rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume. Kant proposed that objective reality is known only insofar as
it conforms to the essential structure of the knowing mind. Only objects of experience, phenomena, may be known, whereas things lying beyond experience, noumena, are unknowable, even though in some
cases we assume a priori knowledge of them. The existence of such unknowable things-in-themselves can be neither confirmed nor denied, nor can they be scientifically demonstrated" (Immanuel Kant). He
arrived at his categorical imperative to which he referred to as being absolute moral law: "Act as if the maxim from which you act were to become through your
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can affect the moral and ethical
decisions of individuals. According to Kant, man may incorporate personal and sometimes selfish considerations into the process of ethical determinations, but this does not negate the moral applications of
these choices. These same theories call into to question whether the effects of moral choices, whether good or not, are considered good simply because of the intention of the
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