Kantian Ethics

Question 1

Who created Kantian ethics?

Answer 1

Emmanuel Kant

Question 2

What movement was he part of?

Answer 2

The Enlightenment

Question 3

Is the theory deontological or teleological?

Answer 3

Deontological

Question 4

Is it absolutist or relativist?

Answer 4

Absolutist

Question 5

What did Kant think moral decision was known through?

Answer 5

Reason

Question 6

What did he think it meant to be human?

Answer 6

To be a ‘rational agent’

Question 7

What was his absolutist ethics influential on?

Answer 7

Human rights

Question 8

What are moral statements?

Answer 8

A priori synthetic
Evidenced with experience

Question 9

What are everyday statements?

Answer 9

Known through experience
Evidenced through expirience

Question 10

What is good will?

Answer 10

The only intrinsically good thing

Question 11

What is duty?

Answer 11

The action that is morally required

Question 12

What do you have to combine to get a moral action?

Answer 12

Duty + Goodwill

Question 13

How many imperatives did Kant produce?

Answer 13

2

Question 14

What are the imperatives called?

Answer 14

Hypothetical
Categorical

Question 15

What did Kant believe humans had?

Answer 15

Autonomy

Question 16

What is a hypothetical imperative?

Answer 16

A command we would follow in order to achieve an end result

Question 17

Are hypothetical imperatives moral?

Answer 17

No as they are dependant on a goal

Question 18

What is a categorical imperative?

Answer 18

A moral obligation worked out through reason

Question 19

What should the categorical imperative be used alongside?

Answer 19

Rules and laws

Question 20

What are used to help follow moral duties?

Answer 20

The three formulations of the categorical imperative

Question 21

What are the three formulations called?

Answer 21

Universal law
Persons as an ends
Kingdom of ends

Question 22

What does the first formulation mean? - Universal law

Answer 22

You must do things that can be made into a universal law that can be applied to everyone

Question 23

What does the second formulation mean? - Ends in themselves

Answer 23

Don’t treat people as an ends to a means
Treat them as you want to be treated

Question 24

What does the third formulation mean? - Kingdom of ends

Answer 24

Reject hypothetical imperatives and focus on the idea that all humans have a moral duty

Question 25

Why did Kant say a categorical imperative should be performed?

Answer 25

Because it’s the right thing to do

Question 26

What is the end goal of Kant’s categorical imperative?

Answer 26

Summum bonum

Question 27

What does summum bonum mean?

Answer 27

Highest happiness

Question 28

When is summum bonum received?

Answer 28

After we die as a reward

Question 29

What is summum bonum compared to?

Answer 29

Heaven

Question 30

How many postulates are there?

Answer 30

3

Question 31

What are the three postulates?

Answer 31

Freedom
Immortality
God

Question 32

What does freedom mean in the postulates?

Answer 32

You must act autonomously

Question 33

What does immortality mean in the postulates?

Answer 33

That you have an immortal soul capable of achieving summum bonum to have after you die

Question 34

What does God mean in the postulates?

Answer 34

God is the only one able to reward you following the CI