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Mar 10, 2021 · With these distinctions in mind, we can stop using an ambiguous word – “morally right” – and instead use these more precise terms categories for morally evaluating actions: morally permissible: morally OK; not morally wrong; not morally impermissible; “OK to do”;
It is morally permissible for each agent to try to help, but it is also morally permissible to refrain from trying to help. Trying to help is morally better than not trying to help.
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Kant argues that morality is defined by duties and the good will, which is the only thing good in itself. He proposes three formulas for the categorical imperative, which are tests to determine whether an action is morally permissible or not.
- Heather Wilburn
- 2020
Feb 23, 2004 · If you could, then your action is morally permissible. If your maxim fails the third step, you have a “perfect” duty admitting “of no exception in favor of inclination” to refrain from acting on that maxim (G 4:421).
- Robert Johnson, Adam Cureton
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Nov 21, 2007 · In contemporary moral philosophy, deontology is one of those kinds of normative theories regarding which choices are morally required, forbidden, or permitted.
Apr 17, 2002 · descriptively to refer to certain codes of conduct put forward by a society or a group (such as a religion), or accepted by an individual for her own behavior, or. normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational people.
If one of any two actions which are similar in all morally relevant respects is morally permissible, then so is the other. If one of any two actions which are similar in all morally relevant respects is morally obligatory, then so is the other.
