FRAMEWORKS AND

PRINCIPLES BEHIND
OUR MORAL
DISPOSITION
FRAMEWORK

HAPPINESS AS THE CONSTITUTIVE

OF MORAL AND CARDINAL VIRTUES
WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

• Happiness is a feeling of pleasure and

positivity. When someone feels good, proud,
excited, relieved or satisfied about
something, that person is said to be "happy".
Feeling happy may help people to relax and
to smile. 
• Happiness is usually thought of as the
opposite of sadness.
MORAL AND CARDINAL VIRTUES

Moral virtue – is a virtue concerned with

the practical life or with the vegetative
and appetitive contrasted with
intellectual virtue.
• Courage
• Justice
• Honesty
• Compassion
• Temperance and Kindness
MORAL AND CARDINAL VIRTUES

Cardinal virtues are four virtues of mind

and character in both classical
philosophy and Christian theology. The
term cardinal comes from the
Latin cardo (hinge); virtues are so called
because they are regarded as the basic
virtues required for a virtuous life..
FOUR CARDINAL VIRTUES
KANT AND RIGHT THEORISTS

1. Kant
a. Goodwill
b. Categorical Imperative
2. Different kinds of Rights
c. Legal Rights
d. Moral Rights
IMMANUEL KANT
• Was born on April 22, 1724, in Kaliningrad,
Russia
• Was a German philosopher and one of the
foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment.
• His comprehensive systematic work in
epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics greatly
influenced all subsequent philosophy,
especially the various schools of Kantianism
and Idealism.
IMMANUEL KANT

"It is impossible to think of anything at

all in the world, or indeed even beyond
it, that could be considered good without
limitation except a good will."
IMMANUEL KANT

• Kant’s theory is an example of a deontological

moral theory- according to these theories, the
rightness or wrongness of actions does not
depend on their consequences but on whether
they fulfill our duty.