PHIL103: Moral and Political Philosophy

Watch this lecture until 28:25. This lecture introduces a third major approach to morality: Immanuel Kant's deontological, or duty-based, ethics. In contrast to the utilitarians, Kant holds that an action's consequences are not what make it right or wrong, but rather the principle on which the action was based. Kant's view is similar to Locke's in that he ascribes fundamental rights to persons, but what really sets Kant apart is his insistence that even if we do the right thing, we still have not acted morally unless we have also done it for the right reason.