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Kantian ethics5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This means that, by not addressing the tension between self-interest and morality, Kant’s ethics cannot give humans any reason to be moral. For Hegel, it is unnatural for humans to suppress their desire and subordinate it to reason. Hegel’s second criticism was that Kant’s ethics forces humans into an internal conflict between reason and desire. He also used the example of helping the poor: if everyone helped the poor, there would be no poor left to help, so beneficence would be impossible if universalised, making it immoral according to Kant’s model. Hegel used Kant’s example of being trusted with another man’s money to argue that Kant’s Formula of Universal Law cannot determine whether a social system of property is a morally good thing, because either answer can entail contradictions. To illustrate this point, Hegel and his followers have presented a number of cases in which the Formula of Universal Law either provides no meaningful answer or gives an obviously wrong answer. He argued that Kant’s ethics lack any content and so cannot constitute a supreme principle of morality. ![]() ![]() He first argued that Kantian ethics provides no specific information about what people should do because Kant’s moral law is solely a principle of non-contradiction. Hegel presented two main criticisms of Kantian ethics. ![]()
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