Universal Law of Kant

Kantian philosophy outlines the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative as a method for determining morality of actions. This formula is a two part test. First, one creates a maxim and considers whether the maxim could be a universal law for all rational beings. Second, one determines whether rational beings would will it to be a universal law. Once it is clear that the maxim passes both prongs of the test, there are no …

…individual and specific situation. In fact, utilitarianism considers happiness to be the only intrinsically valuable end. Defenders of utilitarianism claim that it maintains universality by considering the greatest happiness of all beings, rather than just individual happiness. Still, the morality is based on constantly changing and often unpredictable consequences. The requirement that one consider all of the consequences of an action and determine the best possible action through such calculations makes me reject ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**