Utilitarianism and Immanuel Kant's ethics are very different. In this video, we take a look at the most important differences and use 3 case studies to examine the different decisions a utilitarian and a Kantian would make.
0:00 Utilitarian Imperative vs. Categorical Imperative
1:02 Principles of Utilitarianism vs. Kant
5:14 Case 1: The borrowed book
7:12 Case 2: Shopping or moving?
9:09 Case 3: The mountain railway
10:57 Own opinion
SOURCES 📚
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Höffe, Otfried. 1975. Einführung in die utilitaristische Ethik. Beck. München.
Kant, Immanuel. 1986. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten. Reclam. Stuttgart.
Kant, Immanuel. 1990. Die Metaphysik der Sitten. Reclam. Stuttgart.
Kant, Immanuel. 2003. Kritik der praktischen Vernunft. Meiner. Hamburg.
Kant-Lexikon. 2015. Herausgegeben von Marcus Willaschek, Jürgen Stolzenberg, Georg Mohr, Stefano Bacin. De Gruyter.
Schroth, Jörg. 2016. Texte zum Utilitarismus. Reclams Universal-Bibliothek. Reclam. Stuttgart.
