Ethics - Kant

[Browneyed]

HI to everyone!!

I'm struggling to understand Immanuel Kant's theory of ethics. Please help guide me in understanding his work. I have researched Kant and found that the primary principle of Kant’s ethics, “the duty to act” primary means that it everyone’s duty to do what is right just because it is the right thing to do, without any ulterior motive. The outcome of the act, whether it is good or bad has no reflection on whether the person act was right or not, as long as it was done with the right intentions. I'm trying to relate this to my job. I work as a nurse and struggling with finding an example or how Kant's theory is applied in the setting of healthcare I work at......

Please any insight into this would help and would be appreciated....

[muazjalil]

Isnt Kants main moral principle Categorical Imperative : "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law." The following link might help : http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/ethics/kant.htm