Ethics

Mahinay, Joe Marvin

BMMA – 203
04#Activity - 1

Instructions:
Read the following items carefully and give what is asked.

Q. For Kant, what is the role of reason in living morally?

According to Immanuel Kant, the role of reason in morality is a conditional

judgment to one’s ethics. In a way Kant perceives that a “Good” reason is preferably
more willful in short it produces a Goodwill to the person for example what’s good and
bad. Another is a good will is the highest of good in the condition of all other goods to
summarize this means that a goodwill is the highest form of reason to one’s self though
some goodwill’s are not always good.

Q. Explain: “What is legal is not always moral.”

The meaning of this mean that even if a higher form of authority legalized certain
aspects of ethics not every one of these are always moral to an individual. Let’s take
this example from the most controversial debates the introduction and preferences
about the LGBTQ+ to many accounts believe that only two genders exist in this world
and no such anomalies can change these two genders and this is seen to many as the
moral standard. For some, sexuality is something that has existed even before the
implementation of the LGBTQ+ community. Many uses the bible as a catalyst of
morality as this is the highest form of ethics to one’s religion. Because of this people
under religion is not fond of these irregular self-prescribe sexualities. Though many
countries have legalized same sex married but to some still sees this as an immoral
action.

Q. Differentiate rights from virtue theories.

The difference between Rights and Virtue theories is the principles from one and
the another. The notion of Rights theory is under the influences of control as for the
Virtues theories are voluntary actions that a person can perform and follow a certain
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standard. The difference here is the level of freedom of the person as this is pertained
and further discussed in the Rights theory according to Immanuel Kant, rights are the
level of freedom an individual and Rights theory talks about the amount of sacrifice a
willing citizen to give up their freedom for protection. In contrast, Virtues are
philosophical actions that a highest moral person can conduct or assess this is believed
to be a person’s willingness to live well and be ethically correct in situations. For
example, a virtuous person is goodwilled individual who values behavior that are right
and correct and avoids developing bad character traits.

Back to the question the differences of virtue ethics and rights theory is the effects to a
person. Every individual has the rights to live and has the virtues to perform actions the
only differences is the amount of willingness they have. A person can choose to be a
nomad and live of freedom but a person can not live in a land without any resources. It
is the person decision to choose between the true theories of what is preferably
beneficial to him/her.