Kantian Point Of View

  

The 1976 movie Network (directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch) gives a prescient picture of what media production and content, especially news channels, would become. Write a paper that analyzes one or two ethical questions or questionable decisions that come up in the film from a Kantian point of view. Pay particular attention to the question of universalization and of whether an untenable contradiction results from universalizing the maxims that the ethical agents in the movie choose to follow