Moral Theory and Its Application to Law

This is the first article that I had to read for my Philosophical problems in law class. It compares Utilitarianism to Kantianism. Kant agreed with the Christian view that humans are morally special and thus we deserve a special kind of respect and rights that comes with that status. This view needs for human beings to be different from animals, special; thus, there was the creation of the soul. These immortal souls given to us by God are the reason we are different from animals. When we wanted to be special, different, we created this idea of a soul, impossible to prove. In this way, human insecurity of lack of originality brought about the inception of Christianity. The thought that we are the same as animals just seems so inconceivable that we must rationalize there is something undetectable within the human being that is precious, special, different.