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KANT'S UTILITARIANISMPRINCIPLE

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1Immanuel Kant's Utilitarianism principle and reasons why to prefer his view against the otherphilosophers............................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTIONKant described principles of utilitarianism in two different terms towards humanactivities of getting happiness from their individual activities. The report will present ImmanuelKant's Utilitarianism principle and reasons why to prefer his view against other philosophers incritically and philosophy views. MAIN BODYImmanuel Kant's Utilitarianism principle and reasons why to prefer his view against the otherphilosophersIt can be said that most of the time, whether we ought to do something is not really amoral choice. Instead, it is just contingent on our desires. Kant says that a person should look athis intentions and maxims of the specific action taken by him. He believes that human life isvaluable as well as important that they are the bearer of life. In other words, human are capableof rational behaviours and also considered as free rational beings. They should not make use ofthis for the happiness and enjoyment of others. Categorical imperatives: there are some command which must be followed regarding desiresand moral obligations which are derived from pure reason. According to Kant, it does not matteryou want to be moral or not but the moral law is binding on all of us. In addition, religion is notimportant to determine what the law is because the right and wrong is known for us. Apart from this, Utilitarianism believes7 that a human should make actions that help toproduce a large amount of joy and happiness (Mill, 2016). It can be said that Kant ethics providea simple way to determine actions as moral rights as compared to utilitarian ethics effectively.Only proposal of action is considered by Kant but utilitarianism compares acts that are availableand provide the best effect. The primary difference in between utilitarianism and Kantdeontology is that Kant views an action as wrong and right along with its consequences andutilitarianism provides views on an action only with the consequences reference of the actionwhich is right or wrong effectively. The goal of utilitarian is to calculate decision making method of all potential benefits andcosts of an action which are time consuming and also leave minor time to promote happiness.After analysing the concept of goodwill from Kant, David Ross takes the argument that a moralgood action should not be easily conform with moral law and also performed that helps to1

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