Introduction

Question 1

German Philosopher, Immanuel Kant, lived at a time of great crisis and doubt. Developments in ? had begun to reducing knowledge with a mechanistic ? understanding of the world, rather than looking to superstition or ? for explanations.

Answer 1

Science.
Newtonian.
Religion.

Question 2

Kant did believe in God and an afterlife but he was suspicious of ? on religious doctrines and ?

Answer 2

Relying.

Dogmas.

Question 3

Kant thought that how we saw the world and morality were framed by concepts and ?

Answer 3

Categories.

Question 4

Kant believed that moral knowledge was known through ?, not experience or emotion, making it “? ?”. This ? knowledge is something we can ? through reason.

Answer 4

Reason.
A priori.
Moral.
Reason.

Question 5

The moral law is something we must ? follow.

Answer 5

Categorically.

Question 6

Morals, for Kant, are ? ? - fixed rules that must always apply.

Answer 6

Universal maxims.

Question 7

For Kant, good people always follow the ? ? because they have a good will and do their ? In the ultimate end, we will experience the good life.

Answer 7

Moral law.

Duty.

Question 8

Kant is a ? ethical thinker (the rightness or wrongness is determined by the ? in themselves) and believes there’s an objective ? law that we can know through reason rather than happiness or pleasure.

Answer 8

Deontological.
Actions.
Moral.

Question 9

Moral rules should apply to everyone and moral ? don’t change.

Answer 9

Actions.

Question 10

Rationality frees us to be able to act independently of instinct or desire for ?

Answer 10

Pleasure.

Question 11

Humans are free to pursue the ? ? - the ? good where we do good and it brings happiness for all.

Answer 11

Summum Bonum.

Supreme.

Question 12

Kant’s approach to his ? comes from four basic questions:

1) What can I know?
2) What should I do?
3) What may I hope?
4) What is a human being?

Answer 12

Philosophy.