Connection:
A modern day connection that I can make from philosophy to real world involves the ideals of Kant. The situation at Penn State reminds me of Emmanuel Kant. Although the head coach told his supervisors about what the other coach was doing, I wonder if it was with the right intentions. Kant believed that if a person did the right thing for the wrong reasons it had NO moral value. The coach may have done what looks “right” to us which was to tell, but did he actually do the right thing. After he realized that nothing was being done to stop the situation he didn’t do anything more to help stop the situation, he did only what was required of him and nothing else. I don’t think he actually did the right thing, because although he did as he was supposed to he didn’t actually do what was necessary to stop the situation which was to go to the police. Instead he let it continue to take place. This leads me to believe that his actions of telling his supervisors wasn’t really moral, because I think he just did it because it was what was expected not because he actually thought it was the right thing. Because if he was really interested in doing the right thing he would have done more to help stop the situation.
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