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Ethics Paper

Everyday we each face questions of what we ought to do. We sometimes ask ourselves,
"What if everyone did that?" Every time you decide to pick up a piece of trash because you want
the city to look nice, you are not doing it because of the aesthetic effect of one piece of trash, but
rather what the city would look like if no one picked up their trash.
Kant uses this everyday question in his system of morality as part of the categorical
imperative. For Kant, the morality of an action can be determined by the categorical imperative.
Kant would like to determine the morality of stealing, therefore Kant wants to examine the
morality of "I will steal anything I want to satisfy my desire for it". Then Kant rephrases the
statement to ask the question of what if everybody did it, "Everyone will steal anything they want
to satisfy their desire for it." Then Kant makes that statement a maxim, a law which must be
followed by everyone in Kant's test world. Kant examines the world and......


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Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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