Kant’s Categorical Imperatives

Question 1

Kant believed that religion and morality were?

Answer 1

A bad pairing

Question 2

Kant believed in order to determine what’s right and wrong you use

Answer 2

Reason and consideration for others

Question 3

Kant believed that morals shouldn’t regard

Answer 3

Beliefs(religion, etc.)

Question 4

Kant believed that if you looked to religion for morality you would

Answer 4

Not find the same answer

Question 5

Kant viewed morality as a..

Answer 5

Constant(like math)

Question 6

Hypothetical Imperatives

Answer 6

Commands you should follow if you want something. If-then statements. Based on prudents. Job analogy.

Question 7

Kant viewed morality through?

Answer 7

Categorical Imperatives

Question 8

Categorical Imperatives

Answer 8

commands you must follow regardless of your desires. Obligations derived from reason.

Question 9

It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to be moral….

Answer 9

The moral law is binding on all of us

Question 10

You don’t need _____ to figure out right and wrong

Answer 10

Religion

Question 11

Categorical Imperatives are understood in…

Answer 11

Formulations

Question 12

Formulation 1?

Answer 12

The Universalizability Principal

Question 13

What is the Universalizability Principal?

Answer 13

“Act only according to that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should becomes a universal law without contradiction”

Question 14

What is a maxim?

Answer 14

Rule or principal of action

Question 15

What is a universal law?

Answer 15

A law that must be followed always in similar situations

Question 16

What does the chom-chom analogy say?

Answer 16

If you approve of the maxim of stealing then you are universalizing it and saying everyone should always steal.

Question 17

What is the contradiction of the chom-chom analogy?

Answer 17

Kant’s wording says moral actions cannot bring contradictions

Question 18

What is the lesson learned in the chom-chom analogy?

Answer 18

No one should steal because it’s not fair to make exceptions for yourself

Question 19

What does Kant think about lying?

Answer 19

It’s bad and no one should do it(shooter analogy)

Question 20

What is formulation 2?

Answer 20

The Formula of Humanity

Question 21

What is the Formula of Humanity?

Answer 21

“Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another always as an end, and never as mere means.”

Question 22

What does mere means mean?

Answer 22

To use for your own benefit with no thought to the interests or benefit of the thing your using(can’t use humans as mere means[ends in ourselves])

Question 23

What does ends in ourselves mean?

Answer 23

Not objects, owns ends, rational and autonomous, we can set goals, and work towards them

Question 24

Are humans ends or means?

Answer 24

Ends

Question 25

When can we not use people?

Answer 25

In the case of autonomy