WHAT IS THE GOOD?

WHAT MAKES AN ACTION GOOD?

WHAT DOES KANT SAY ABOUT WHAT MAKES AN ACTION GOOD?

- ACCORDING TO KANT, SOMETHING CAN BE GOOD ONLY IF IT IS .

NEW VOCAB

• Maxim
• Intrinsically
• Qualification
• Intentionalist

QUESTION

• Have you ever met someone
• Who tried to do good
• But instead ended up causing harm
• Or annoyance, inconvenience?

IS THE ACT THEREFORE EVIL?

WHAT ABOUT THE REVERSE?

ACCORDING TO KANT

KANT'S 3 MAXIMS

FIRST IMPERATIVE

• Act on a maxim where you can,
• at the same time,
• will that it should become universal law.

SECOND IMPERATIVE

• Act as to treat humanity,
• whether in thine own person,
• or in that of any other,
• in every case as an end withal
• and never as a means only.

KANT'S THIRD IMPERATIVE

• Act as though you were,
• through your maxims,
• a law-making member of a kingdom of ends.

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