Kant'ın Ahlak Yasasının Platon'daki Kökleri
"What would happen if everybody behaved like that?" When I do something, it is as if I were giving everyone else my permission to do the same, and I have to consider the consequences of that, not just of my individual action. The German Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), some would say the most influential philosopher of modern times, made this the basic principle of morality (though he found a rather more complicated way of stating it). We have all heard of it, we have all had it thrown at us, and here it is popping up in 400 BC.
["Herkes böyle davransaydı ne olurdu?" Bir şey yaptığımda, bu, herkese yaptığımın aynısının yapılabileceğine dair izin vermektir ve sadece kendi eylemimin değil, bunun sonuçlarını [da] değerlendirmek zorundayım. Kimilerinin modern zamanın en etkileyici filozofu olarak gördüğü, bir Alman olan Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), bunu (her ne kadar ifade etmek için daha karmaşık bir yol bulsa da) ahlaklılığın en temel ilkesi haline getirdi. İşte hepimizin hakkında duyum sahibi olduğu, hepimizin bir kez olsun kulağına çalınmış olan bu argüman MÖ 400'de pat diye çıkıverdi karşımıza.]
Sayfa 18 - Oxford University PressKitabı okudu
And there is nothing to guide us. And if everything is so nebulous about a matter so elementary as the morals of sex, what is there to guide us in the more subtle morality of all other personal contacts, associations and activities? Or are we meant to act on impulse alone? It is all a darkness.
Sayfa 13Kitabı okudu
What if Everyone Did That?
Immanuel Kant (2)
"There’s a knock at your door. Standing in front of you is a young
man who obviously needs help. He’s injured and is bleeding.
You take him in and help him, make him feel comfortable and
safe and phone for an ambulance. This is obviously the right
thing to do. But if you help him just because you feel sorry for
him, according to Immanuel Kant, that wouldn’t be a moral
action at all. Your sympathy is irrelevant to the morality of your
action. That’s part of your character, but nothing to do with
right and wrong. Morality for Kant wasn’t just about what you
do, but about why you do it. Those who do the right thing don’t
do it simply because of how they feel: the decision has to be
based on reason, reason that tells you what your duty is, regard-
less of how you happen to feel."
Sayfa 115 - YALE UNIVERSITY PRESSKitabı okudu
Genuine morality is doing what is right regardless of what we may be told; religious morality is doing what we are told. Religion’s power gives us strong reasons to do what we’re told.
