y say some nice things about you, but really don’t care about you at all. It is not morally right to say something or do something that you really don’t want to say or do. Kant I guess touches on truthfulness when he talks about someone’s motivation to do something. In one of Kant’s major formulations he says “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.” If one performs a moral action, but has immoral intentions, that person should not be considered morally right. Kant believes that you absolutely cannot put up a front to someone and take advantage of him because he or she really doesn’t know your motivations for your actions. “Do your duty”, Kant says, your duty is to do good. The duty is a part of an action in which you do it with the respect of your morals and also the morals of others. All of your reasoning should come from your maxim, a maxim that you have to keep true too.A great maxim that I have just experience dealt with the duty of doing good, or you could say the duty to shoveling mulch for my dad. A week ago a got a call from my dad who ask me to give him a hand at home over the weekend to do some mulching. I gladly said I was willing to help him and told him that I would be home Friday. After my brief conversation with my dad I immediately received a phone call from one of my buddies from school. In this phone call he ask me to join him and a couple other of my friends on a trip to Canada. This situation set up a pretty big maxim for me. After reviewing what we learned in class you could say that I set up some categories for myself. The generalized description of my maxim was that my dad asked me for some help and I gladly volunteered myself. My policy statement or promise is that I guaranteed my dad that I would be there for him and that I woul...
