THE MORAL - POLITICAL CONCEPTION OF KANT
THE MORAL - POLITICAL CONCEPTION OF KANT

Summary/Abstract: Moral law exists in each of us and is given to us for understanding in an immediate manner, whatever the age, readiness or country we live in. It is a law of intelligible, opposite the sensitive laws of nature.For any human being, moral law is the clearest thing. Nothing is simpler than knowing my duty; It's enough to think only a few seconds. Why? Because duty rests on one thing: the universality of the rule that guides my actions. In order for my act to be moral, I must have the rule after which I act to be transformed into the universal rule. Knowing what needs to be done is very simple in Kant's vision.It's a matter of elementary logic that anyone understands right away. A clear distinction must be made between "knowing your duty" and "doing your duty. Moral laws impose our idea of freedom.The absolute imperative, doubles the moral law; the will doubles the reason. It has the value of a practical moral law, restricting moral actions, whose framework maintains it by commanding acts according to the law, prohibiting opposition to them.Kant distinguishes between: 1- Duty-conform Shares; 2- Shares contrary to dutyAccording to Kant's ethics, a moral action is made of duty, leaving beyond the moral sphere that kind of action, which, although it is considering a Good, has its cause not in duty but in inclination.Power means the supreme manifestation of the right united with morality and, for this reason, Kant says, it does not admit any opposition.We must submit to power because it does not contradict the moral law.Kant preferred the inability of man to observe. He presupposes a rational elite, democratically elected to administer the society, and therefore charges the opposition, admitting that power, however bad it may be, still offers the possibility of functioning a social structure within which to publicly disagree with it.For the German philosopher, the only good policy that can serve man and humanity well, which must always be regarded as goals and never just as means, is the policy that folds on the moral principles.Kant's political ethics is simply an extrapolation of practical philosophical principles in the sphere of politics and law.

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