Kant

Question 0

what does kant want?

Answer 0

rational basis for why we do things

Question 1

where is kant coming out of?

Answer 1

kant is coming out of enlightenment

Question 2

where does kant say moral law comes from?

Answer 2

moral law comes from reason

Question 3

what can kant oblige?

Answer 3

irrationality

Question 4

what is left behind? KANT

Answer 4

our desires

Question 5

what does prescriptive mean?

Answer 5

‘i ought’ means ‘i can’

Question 6

what type of ethics is kantian ethics?

Answer 6

deontological

Question 7

what is important in kantian ethics?

Answer 7

the act (plus intention) is all important

Question 8

what is critical? KANT

Answer 8

motivation

Question 9

what is kantian ethics based on?

Answer 9

our duty - we shouldn’t act out of compassion

Question 10

what is prescriptive?

Answer 10

morality

Question 11

what does it mean to act morally?

Answer 11

acting autonomously (free from inclinations and desires)

Question 12

what happens if your freedom is restricted?

Answer 12

you cannot take responsibility for you actions

Question 13

what is summum bonum?

Answer 13

greatest good

Question 14

when can we achieve summum bonum?

Answer 14

we cannot achieve it in this lifetime - points to the afterlife and exsitence of god

Question 15

what are moral statements?

Answer 15

‘a priori synthetic

Question 16

what should we act from?

Answer 16

our duty, not because of consequences

Question 17

what guides our emotion?

Answer 17

reason and rationality

Question 18

what does the categorical imperetive do?

Answer 18

prescribes necessary behaviour irrespective of the consequence

Question 19

what is the first formulation of the CI?

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universability

‘act according to that maxim by which you can, at the same time, will, that it should become an universal law’

Question 20

what is the 2nd formulation of the CI?

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2) treat humans as ends and not means

Question 21

whats the 3rd formulation of the CI?

Answer 21

3) act is if you live in a kingdom of ends

Question 22

what does the categorical imperetive help us to know?

Answer 22

which obligations are obligatory and which are forbidden

Question 23

what is the hypothetical imperetive?

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NOT moral commands to the will - they do not apply to everyone

always ‘if’

only need to be obeyed with the intention of a certain ‘goal’

Question 24

what did kant believe?

Answer 24

we should do the right thing just because it is right and not because it fulfils out desires or is based on our feelings

Question 25

what does kant say we have to do to test a moral maxim?

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we need to ask whether we can always say that everyone should follow it and we must reject id we cannot

Question 26

what was kant influenced by?

Answer 26

Isaac newton

Question 27

because the world is scientific and rational - what does kant think our behaviour should be?

Answer 27

rational

Question 28

nothing can be taken as good without qualification except for…?

Answer 28

good will

Question 29

what can be bad/hurtful if good will isn’t applied?

Answer 29

anything/everything

Question 30

what does duty have to be done for?

Answer 30

it’s own sake - the benefits are not relevant

Question 31

what do motives need to be?

Answer 31

pure - doing duty for any other reason doesn’t count

Question 32

to act morally, what must one be capable of?

Answer 32

exercising freedom or autonomy of the will

Question 33

what does kant think that humans ultimate end is?

Answer 33

summum bonum - supreme good; a uniting of virtue and happiness