Kants Moral Argument

Question 1

What was his book?

Answer 1

• Critique of practice reason

Question 2

Not trying to prove…

Answer 2

Postulate of pure reason - God necessary for morality to achieve end

Question 3

Connected to…

Answer 3

Moral argument

Question 4

1st part

Answer 4

Using reason = conclusion there must be afterlife and God as necessary for morality
People do moral actions even if no benefit to them
Doing duty for duty’s sake
Categorical imperative = duty = absolute = actions not consequences
Act virtuously for sake

Question 5

2nd part

Answer 5

World is not fair, evil prospers good does not 
Unacceptable state of affairs 
Universe must be equal
Virtue rewarded with happiness 
Summit bonum
Ought implies can
Omnipotent to ensure happiness 
God in afterlife

Question 6

What is Kant’s moral argument not

Answer 6

Not rational moral argument

Question 7

What was freuds book called

Answer 7

Future on an illusion

Question 8

What did he believe

Answer 8

Social awareness through socialisation
Conscious = product of unconscious mind/superego
Revealed through dreams and mistakes

Question 9

What did Freud believe the mind was divided into

Answer 9

id- basic instincts
Ego- balances I’d and super-ego
Super-ego - similar to conscience shaped by influences

Question 10

Where did Freud think moral values come from

Answer 10

Upbringing - subjective to culture - ethnocentrism - not universal as Kant would imply

Question 11

Religion is according to Freud

Answer 11

Obsessional neuroses to satisfy desires and dreams about world

Question 12

What did Freud believe the summum bonum was

Answer 12

A persuasive human desire does not mean God or summum bonum is actually reality