Riots To Civility: Kant's Moral Education

Item

Title

Riots To Civility: Kant's Moral Education

Description

This paper will analyze Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals, discussing his moral education and how it can be used to teach immature and careless individuals to become moral beings. In past months, the US has increasingly become a more turbulent country. Protesting, riots, looting, and destruction have gripped the nation. Even the small city of Keene, N.H. has been affected by the Pumpkin Fest riots, causing tens of thousands of dollars in property damage. These became riots celebrating violence for violence's sake, where morality was replaced with carelessness and immaturity. Citizens of a state have rights and freedoms, but also have duties to individuals and themselves, which are derived from reason and the moral law which commands respect. Rational beings who do as they please are not free. One should act with restraint, respecting the laws of the state. All rational beings respect one another as commanded by the moral law.

Nicholas Germana

Contributor

Keene State College

Creator

Gregory Howard

Date

2015-04-11

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12088/7541

Language

en_US

Subject

History

Philosophy

Type

Presentation

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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets

AEC 2015 Humanities

Site pages

Humanities