Kant Ethics

Question 1

Categorical imperative

Answer 1

Universal Law- your actions must be something you and all others can do and always will be able to do.
Never tell a lie = can be universalised
ENDS IN ITSELF- We should never treat people only as a means to an end- don’t take advantage of someone for your own benefit.
Universal Law- the world we must imagine where everyone acts morally.

Question 2

Universal law

Answer 2

Our actions should be something ourselves and others can and always will be able to do, accepted everywhere at all times.

Question 3

Ends in itself

Answer 3

We should never treat people only as a means to an end- don’t take advantage of others for our own benefit
Man who beats wife (Stella man)

Question 4

Kingdom of ends

Answer 4

A place where everything is morally correct, what we should imagine and try to imitate

Question 5

Duty

Answer 5

We all have an innate duty to do good and avoid evil

Question 6

3 postulates

Answer 6

Freedom
Immortality
God

Question 7

Summum bonum

Answer 7

we must be able to be rewarded for our actions. He talked about the summum bonum - the place where our happiness and our virtue (good actions through doing our duty) come together.