Kant’s maxim which is an intention to perform an act, so for an act to be moral it must have an appropiate maxim underlying it. So to help the homeless or obey my parents the maxim for these Full Article
Kant is central to this argument. His ethical theory is de ontological and is duty bound in nature, absolute and objective so apply to all people universally. Kant argues that acting out of any Full Article
Plato see’s this transition from ordinary to the flourishing as a transition to the world of forms which for Plato is where people can only do what is right or good. He uses an allegory of a Full Article
Plato and Aristotle thought of morality as part of self interest and about the person whereas later philosophers considered the action more. Ergon – ergon in Greek is about function but not Full Article
Taking the same starting point in this section as the last, self-interest is the starting point of morality and the motivation for human interest but draws a different conculsion. That being that Full Article
Morality involves adopting an impartial perspective. Perhaps morality is about taking an impartial perspective so even if a social contract is in my own interest and that of others this does not Full Article
The Prisoners Dilemma The Enlightened Egoist argument is given support with ‘game theory’ and highlighted in the prisoners dilemma. Essentially, over time if each prisoner acts in the Full Article
The social convention was conceived of as a way out of the nasty, brutish and short life the Hobbes envisioned but Hobbes himself would concede that people would not sit down and write such a Full Article
Plato Gyges ring State of Nature Hobbes solitary poor nasty brutish short enlightened egoism Glaucon Never was a social contract Was there ever a state of nature, John Locke suggested there was not Full Article
Morality can be thought of as acting morally and being motivated by morality. There are push and pull reasons to moral. Pull = Reward – friendship, trust, popularity Push = Fear – being Full Article
