Read the material in the files section on Kantian Ethics, Utilitarianism and Kant’s ethic

Read the material in the files section on Kantian Ethics, Utilitarianism and Kant’s ethics, and look at the selection from J.S. Mill’s Utilitarianism.  Then read the material about Holmes and the Lifeboat.  Holmes is a seaman who has been ordered to throw people out of an overcrowded lifeboat (which will result in their deaths) to keep the boat from sinking. If you approach the situation from a Kantian view, what do you think Holmes should do?  If you approach the situation from a Utilitarian position, what do you think Holmes should do?  If you were Holmes what do you think you should do? Why?  Be sure to comment on what you think the Kantian and Utilitarian views would say.

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Kant’s theory is a type of deontological theory of moral which state that the rightness or the wrongness of an action does not only depend on their consequences but if they can fulfill duties. Utilitarianism by Mill refers to killing few to save many a contradiction of Kant’s theory.  The two theories are used to approach a situation where an individual commits murder of a person to prevent a boat from drowning.

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