Justice: What is to do the right thing? Episode 06: "Mind Your reason"

PART ONE: MIND subject your Professor Sandel is Immanuel Kant, philosopher demanding but influential. Kant rejects utilitarianism. He argued that each of us certain fundamental rights and duties, has priority over utility maximization. Kant rejects the idea that morality is about the calculation of consequences. When we do something because of having to act just right-click only do our actions moral value. Kant gives the example of a shopkeeper, who directs theChance shortchange a customer just because your business could suffer if other customers discovered. According to Kant, the measure seller, no moral value, because he did the right thing for the wrong reasons. PART TWO: the supreme principle of morality, Immanuel Kant said that as far as to bring our actions moral value, moral value is our ability to self-interest and the inclination and duty to act. Sandel tells the true story of a boy of thirteen who won aSpelling bee competition, but the judge admitted that wrote, incorrectly, in fact, the last word. This story and others, says Sandel Kant's criterion for determining whether an act is morally right: to recognize the principle expressed in our actions and then ask whether this principle can never be a universal law that any other person to act.