Essay

Golden Rule

Maxim: a rule that one person follows

Formula 1“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will it should become a universal law”

Morality is a conflict for humans

Human autonomy=freedom to pick and choose

Non-autonomous ethics: religion, gov, etc

Distinction bet/ phenomenal world and Noumenal world

You are subject of activity not an object of activity

Act on principle not on emotions

consequences ARE IRRELEVANT

motives/ good intentions

DUTY/OBLIGATION

Reason determines what we ought to do

Consistency

Making yourself an exception: heart of immorality

Dignity

Formula 2: “Treat human beings and yourself as ends in themselves not as means to an end”