Intro:
Kant argues that each of us has certain fundamental rights and obligations, and their observance is more important than maximizing utility. He rejects the idea that morality would depend on the consequences of actions. Our actions are moral only when we do what is incumbent on us, when we do something just because it's the thing that needs to be done. Kant gives the example of a shop owner not cheating the customer thinks that his business would suffer if others would find out that it was dishonest. After Kant, in this case the action of the owner of the shop has no moral value because he did the right thing because the wrong reason. Kant says that our actions have moral value only if we manage to ignore the interests of us personally and to act from duty. Professor Sandel give a real example of a child who won a contest but then recognised the CPSP in front of the jury as fact gresise the last sample. Using this example and others, Sandel explain Kant's test to determine whether an action is moral: indeed the principle behind our actions must become a universal law based on which you can operate on any other person.

Workshop schedule:

17:00-18:00 screening of the episode Mind Your Reasons | The Supreme Principle of Morality

18:15-20:00 free talk

Location:

CADI, Sp. Independentei, Bl 17. 101, 1st floor, apt. 4 30.