Viewpoints of Kant and Bentham

By comparing viewpoints of Kant and Bentham and relate it to our modern society, it is able to observe that Kant provides a more straightforward answer to whether it is moral to have an abortion . The standard of Kant is that, the final decision is only based on the moral worth of the action and furthermore, an abortion is a way to kill a person that is always considered as a murder and it is never a moral action. Thus, although Kant knows an abortion is needed when the mother is raped so hindered by many restrictions from the society or how unwilling the mother is about having that abortion, he would reject it anyway. Unlike him, Bentham would say that if that is the case, an abortion is not morally wrong accords with the happiness of the mother and the fetus and consider about their future life.

In conclusion, both philosophers provide their moral and ethical perspectives on abortion. By contrasting and comparing the moral views of Kant and Bentham and insofar as all the evidence available, I would say that I agree with Bentham’s perspective because unlike Kant whose view is so straightforward to decide what is right and what is wrong, Bentham’s