For your Unit 3 assignment, you will write a paper based on the theme of “Good and Evil,” and the ethical theories of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill.
You will choose to view either the movie Casablanca, the movie High Noon, or a different movie that has been approved by your instructor, and will interpret the movie and relate one or two of the movie’s characters to the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill.
You will relate your character selections to the following:
Immanuel Kant: Categorical Imperative and the concept of duty.
John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism and the concept of the “greatest good for the greatest number.”
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant lived from 1723 to 1804. The most important ethical concept you should consider as you think about how one should live the Good Life is his ethical theory called the Categorical Imperative. It is categorical because it applies to all human beings and it is imperative because there are no exceptions.
