Deontology Quotes

Question 1

central question

Answer 1

what ought I to do

Question 2

maxim 1

Answer 2

act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law

Question 3

maxim 2

Answer 3

act as if the maxim of your actions were to become through your will a universal law of nature

Question 4

duty of law

Answer 4

duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law

Question 5

good will

Answer 5

a good will is not good because of what it affects or accomplishes, it is good through its willing alone, that is good in itself

Question 6

rational being

Answer 6

now I say that man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will

Question 7

treat humanity

Answer 7

act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end