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Was the United States justified in entering Iraq? Did the United States have a duty to go into Iraq? ... Using Immanuel Kant’s Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, one can use the concepts of duties, inclinations, categorical imperatives, and maxims to analyze the War in Iraq. A maxim, according to Kant is,
The subjective principle of acting and must be distinguished from the objective principle, viz. ... Consider the first maxim: the United States went into Iraq to maintain political stability in the country, and to keep Saddam Hussein from having weapons of mass destruction. A second maxim is that the United States went into Iraq to liberate its people from a destructive dictator. Third, the United States went into Iraq to selfishly secure oil for itself. ... Bush justifies the war by saying that the United States went into Iraq in order to maintain political stability and to keep Saddam Hussein from having weapons of mass destruction. Kant would consider this maxim a perfect duty to others. ... Kant says to “Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature” (30). ... Kant would believe that if the United States did not intervene in Iraq, the people would eventually be destroyed, and everyone has a perfect duty to others to maintain human life.
Approximate Word count = 1002
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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