Explain Freuds Challenge To Kant Moral Argument Fo

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Kant (1724-1804) believed that an awareness of how people ought to live had been given to us by God, and referred to it as the 'highest good' (summum bonum). He also believed we should never use other people for our own advantage, and that the best test for working out if were doing the right thing was to imagine what would happen if everyone else did the same. Freud proposed the theory that children develop a sexual attraction for the parent of the opposite sex to argue against Kant’s moral argument, Freud developed model of the mind there are three parts, the a healthy mind he thought was one where there’s three elements, the id, ego and the super ego , are in harmony and appetite Freud gives the name id to the part of the mind in which human instincts such as desire are often suppressed by our conscious mind, but they can surface throughout dreams. The superego is of the ego. The superego is in some ways similar to the conscious. For Freud it is a form of reasoning ability with which human begins make decisions. It is shaped by the influences which have affected people through the development . Freud emphasised how parental influence is reflected in the way children often share the value system of their parents. The ego is the part of the mind which is shaped by what Freud called ‘external influences’ such as life experiences like traumas and education. Freud argued that religion provides away to satisfy people desire for example that the world will be in order and that life will be meaningful. The answers that religion provides are appealing and that if we life a good life we will be awarded for it after death Freud used the word obsessional neurosis Freud used this to indicate that religious people use this faith in god because it answers their desires, such as life after
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