Chapter 11

Question 1

Explain Kantian Formalism via a definition of phenomenal reality and noumenal reality?

Answer 1

Knowledge is formed my phenomenal reality ( world we expirience) and noumenal reality( reality as it is - not thorugh our perceptions.
We don’t know reality as it is…. reality is known only by how the mind organizes and percieves.

Things do exist… this world does, but we can only percieve or organize it in our minds.

Question 2

What are Kant’s three transcendental ideas and why does Kant argue we all must have an idea of them?

Answer 2

These ideas bridge gap between the nom. and phenom. worlds.
Self: self sustaining intelligence. soul
Cosmos: conditions or expirience
God: highest intelligence: the cause of the comos

Question 3

What is the categorical imperative and what is a hypothetical imperative and describe the difference between the two?

Answer 3

Hypothetical Imperitive: answers what if’s. tells us what to do under certain circumstances
Categorical imperative: knowing your duty and acting on it.* this is what is needed. The defining of moral should be based off duty
“Act as if thy maxim were to become universal law”

Question 4

How does the categorical imperative relate to Kant’s notion of a good will and duty?

Answer 4

it is best because we are acting not out of selfish/ wants, but we act because we know our duty

Question 5

What is the practical imperative (the principle of dignity) and what does it say about how we ought to treat our fellow man?

Answer 5

veiw and see people as people, not just pons to get what we want

Question 6

Describe Rawls’s original position behind the veil of ignorance.

Answer 6

a way of adopting disinterest. where we don’t know our social/economic status etc

Question 7

the good will

Answer 7

person will do anything within power to do their duty, or they become irrational and guilty