Matthew Lopez
9/29/18
AG 4010
Professor Hammack
Book Discussion #3
Coming from a religious background, people generally follow the golden rule: do unto
others what you would like them to do to you. This age old phrase can be heard for centuries in
sermons, masses, or any type of religious gatherings for years and years. It is a phrase you hear
growing up in a catholic school from when you’re a small kindergartener to when you’re an
eighteen year old about to graduate from a catholic high school. However this is not how Kant
views you should live life, “the ultimate point of morality is to improve well-being rather than do
justice” (Schafer-Landau, 2012, p.159). If you should only focus on yourself, this is nowhere
close to living a moral life. A moral way of living is to openly look after one another, and you
can’t do that if you’re only looking after yourself all the time. If people were not to follow the
golden rule, life would be chaotic if everyone were to only look after themselves, “The idea
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