Kant | Quotation Essay

Question 1

What is the structure of the Kant essay?

Answer 1

INTRODUCTION | OVERVIEW | FIRST FORMULATION | SECOND FORMULATION | EVALUATING THE END IN ITSELF FORMULATION | EVALUATING KANTS REFUSAL ON ACTING ON DESIRE | EVALUATING THE DIFFICULTIES OF FOLLOWING OUR DUTIES IN PRACTICE | PERSONAL JUDGEMENT

Question 2

What is the structure of the introduction?

Answer 2

THIS ESSAY WILL… | I WILL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW | I WILL RAISE AND RESPOND TO STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES | CONCLUDE WITH MY OWN PERSONAL JUDGEMENT

Question 3

What is the structure of the overview?

Answer 3

DEONTOLOGICAL/GOOD WILL | EXAMPLE

Question 4

What is the good will?

Answer 4

ACTING PURELY FOR THE SAKE OF DUTY

Question 5

What is the structure of the first formulation?

Answer 5

CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE | FIRST FORMULATION | CONTRADICTION IN CONCEPTION | LINK TO PERFECT DUTIES | CONTRADICTION IN THE WILL | LINK TO IMPERFECT DUTIES

Question 6

What is the categorical imperative?

Answer 6

A TOOL TO TEST MAXIMS TO DETERMINE IF THEY ARE MORAL

Question 7

What is the first formulation?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is a contradiction in a conception? Link to perfect duties

Answer 8

SOMETHING UNIVERSALLY INCONCEIVABLE | PERFECT DUTIES MUST ALWAYS BE FOLLOWED

Question 9

What is a contradiction in the will? Link to imperfect duties

Answer 9

CAN BE UNIVERSALLY FOLLOWED BUT YOU WOULDN’T WANT IT TO BE | IMPERFECT DUTIES ARE TO BE FOLLOWED SOMETIMES

Question 10

What is the structure of the second formulation?

Answer 10

SECOND FORMULATION | TREATING SOMEONE AS A MEANS TO AN END | TREATING SOMEONE AS AN END IN THEMSELVES

Question 11

What is the second formulation?

Answer 11

‘So act as to treat humanity, both in your own person and in the person of every other, always at the same time as an end, never simply as a means’

Question 12

What is treating someone as a means to an end?

Answer 12

REGARDING YOUR OWN ENDS AS MORE IMPORTANT | IGNORE THE FACT THEY HAVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS, PLANS AND GOALS

Question 13

What is treating someone as an end in themselves?

Answer 13

RESPECTING THEIR DIGNITY AS A FREE AND AUTONOMOUS BEING

Question 14

What is the structure of the conclusion?

Answer 14

IN CONCLUSION, I HAVE EVALUATED… | I HAVE CONCLUDED…