Morality: Kant Vs Mill

Introduction

In our life we face a lot of decisions and there are a lot of events come where we are required to take an action that determines our fate. In order to lead our life in a contended and peaceful way we adopt various philosophies, laws, rules and regulations. No matter what we do we make an attempt to take an action that is morality right. Being a human being and being a part of this universe it is our obligation to take actions that are morally right and that would produce maximum good for this universe. When we talk about morality and producing maximum god then the first thing that comes to mind is the arguments and philosophies of various philosophers. The aim and objective this essay is also to talk about morality from the view point of Kant and Mill. More specifically, this essay presents arguments using Kant and Mill philosophy with regard to the following statement:

“Is the morally right thing to do is always the thing which will produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number”.

Kant Conception of Morality

Immanuel Kant was one of the first philosophers of modern times who has been trying to find a general formula for the derivation of moral laws. This should only be found through the use of logic and reason, without taking into account subjective values ??such as experience, ideology, or desires (Munzel, pp. 14). With regard to the above statement Kant's philosophy can be presented as follows;

According to Kant an action is taken of any nature that would become a universal law. With regard to this philosophy of Kant the word law is often misinterpreted as the civil law, but is meant the moral law and morality. For the assessment of an act from a moral point of view it is immaterial whether the act was carried out with courage, determination, or from careful consideration of other noble reasons. With these virtues one could indeed perform morally questionable acts. A good will is only effective if it is determined by the requirement that an action will be done from duty. Only an act of duty is morally good. That is, an act must be done without intention or purpose of the object view but only out of duty (George and Johnson, pp. 24).

Kant identified three cornerstones of the concept of moral. The first thing is feelings and consciousness of the common man, the formal accuracy of moral principles, and finally, the ideal nature of moral norms. General moral rules and principles do not prescribe maxims for an individual's actions, they do not say that we should do at the most that we must be willing to do. In order to do the good will properly in our moral judgments and actions we must take into account the requirements and limitations of situation in which we take our actions (Wordswoth and Thomson, pp. 46).

According to the above views of Kant it can be said that the conceptions ...