Morality_And_Kant

Morality And Kant Morality According to Kant “All rational knowledge is either material, and concerns some object, or formal, and is occupied only with the form of understanding and reason itself and with the universal rules of thinking, without regard to distinctions among objects”(page 3). Kant uses these thoughts throughout all of his writings; all of his comments, thoughts, and views relate back to this principle. Kant expresses his views on morality, duty, good will, and moral duty through out the “Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals.” I agree with many of Kant’s views of these principles, but at the same time disagree with the extremes he takes in trying to persuade the reader. The first “proposition of morality” is that you have to have done something to achieve moral worth. On page 14, Kant says that action done out of “vanity or selfishness” is not true moral worth. Kant uses the example of a sorrowful man. Although this man is sorrowful, he still helped others around him. While helping others, he could not accept sympathy from them because he was so preoccupied with his own sorrows. He doesn’t receive anything in return for his help; now, since kant, duty, moral, kant’s, morality, others, views, thoughts, someone, out, believes, thought, states, person, talents, should, page, own, life, knows, help, being, act, selfish, one, man, law, good, example, done, doing, community, believe, yourself, worth