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Outcomes or duty?

Outcomes or duty?

Flowchart comparing Bentham's consequence-based decision path with Kant's duty-based maxim test

Bentham and Kant are both normative ethical theories, so they try to explain how people ought to act. Bentham asks which action creates the greatest overall happiness, while Kant asks which action follows rational moral duty.

Bentham and Kant Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Religious Studies
  3. /Bentham and Kant

Step-by-step lessons on AQA A Level Religious Studies Bentham and Kant. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Build a solid grounding in the philosophical arguments and key scholars before tackling the more evaluation-heavy synoptic dialogue questions.

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