KANT BUILDS THE ENTIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM

1) KANT BUILDS THE ENTIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM IN WHICH ALL ELEMENTS ARE TIGHTLY CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER. IT IS DIFFICULT TO DO IT, BUT KANT IS A FAMOUS AUTHOR OF DEONTOLOGY OR THE ETHICS OF DUTY. HE IS ABLE TO PRECISELY EXPRESS HIS THEORY.
KANT ANALYZES MORAL ACTIONS, BUT HE DOES NOT CONSIDER THE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF MORALITY (SUCH AS HUMAN HAPPINESS OR SELF-INTEREST) AS ESSENTIAL. RATHER, HE LOOKS WITHIN A HUMAN BEING TO FIND MORAL PRINCIPLES AND INTENTIONS. A UNIVERSAL MORAL LAW SHOULD STRUCTURE HUMAN ACTIONS, ACCORDING TO KANT. WHY SHOULD WE BE MORAL UNCONDITIONALLY? (KANT'S ANSWER: BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.)
KANT'S ETHICS EMPHASIZES UNCONDITIONAL, ABSOLUTE MOTIVES AND DUTIES AS THE CORE OF MORAL ACTIONS. IT ALSO STRESSES DIGNITY AND FREEDOM OF EVERY HUMAN BEING. A HUMAN BEING IS NEVER MERELY THE MEANS, BUT SHE/HE IS ALWAYS THE END. THE END SIGNIFIES AN INTRINSIC VALUE IN KANT'S TERMINOLOGY.

2) OF COURSE, IT IS ONLY A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO KANT'S THEORY. IT SHOULD BE EASIER TO UNDERSTAND DEONTOLOGY, OR KANT'S ETHICS OF DUTY IF WE ANALYZE THE FOLLOWING DILEMMA:


"IF A BEGGAR ASKS ME FOR MONEY, WHAT SHOULD I DO? CAN I REFUSE TO GIVE IT TO HIM/HER ? IS IT ETHICAL TO GIVE MONEY TO A PERSON WHO ASKS FOR IT? WHAT MORAL PRINCIPLES SHOULD GOVERN OUR DECISION? SHOULD WE GIVE MONEY TO OUR FAMILY MEMBERS ONLY? SHOULD WE ALSO GIVE MONEY TO ALL STRANGERS IN NEED?"


3) RECOGNIZE KANT'S PERSPECTIVE RELATED TO CHARITY. ALSO, STATE IF IT IS GOOD TO GIVE MONEY, ACCORDING TO YOU. SUPPORT YOUR TAKE, USING RESEARCH, CRITICAL THINKING, CREATIVITY/ORIGINALITY, AND QUOTES FROM KANT'S "GROUNDING FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS," (PP. 7-17).