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This 7 page paper discusses the arguments of Philippa Foot toward a Kantian view of moral imperatives versus non-hypothetical categories. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Foot takes on Immanuel Kant in her "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives". In doing so, though, are her views of moral considerations disruptive? Kant believed that morality
consists solely of categorical imperatives and as such cannot posses any hypothetical imperatives. Simply put, non-hypothetical concerns, or categorical judgments tell a person what he or she needs to do.
This is more or less a reflexive action and desires and wants do not enter into the picture to muddy the water, so to speak. For example, the idea that
one should protect newborns is a generally accepted principle. This category does not revolve around what the helping person wants or desires, but simply states what must be done.
However, imperatives are a means to an end, so to speak. For example: If I work hard, then I will have enough money to buy a car. Working hard is
something that one should do, but with the qualifier of buy a car then a persons wants and desires enter into the equation. Foots argument is that morality falls
under the category of the non-hypothetical judgment rather than the imperative. Her logic, of course, is to prove that there is no moral imperative by showing that morality is a
non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to be disruptive to the idea of morality all together. Foot goes
on to claim that the categorical use of the word should is not exclusive to morality, but crosses back and forth between the lines of morality and mere etiquette. Etiquette,
Foot illustrates, is conditional to the culture and the geographical location of the individual. For example, shaking hands in the United States is a commonly accepted form of greeting while
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