Kant Terms

Question 1

A priori Knowledge

Answer 1

“before experience” comes with logic and reason

Question 2

A posteriori Knowledge

Answer 2

“after experience” comes from empirical world (like our senses)

Question 3

Deontology

Answer 3

the view that the moral worth of an action is determined by its conformity with moral rules or principles

Question 4

Pathological Love

Answer 4

emotional love

Question 5

Practical Love

Answer 5

acting for others benefit because it is your duty to do so

Question 6

Hypothetical Imperatives

Answer 6

commands us to perform (or not) some action if we want to achieve a specific goal or satisfy some specific desire

Question 7

Categorical Imperatives

Answer 7

unconditionally command us to perform (or not) some action

Question 8

The Categorical Imperative Principle

Answer 8

Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become universal law

Question 9

Maxim

Answer 9

intention or motive

Question 10

The CI Test

Answer 10

way to determine if an action is good or bad
1) Identify your maxim (your specific intention)
2) Generalize your maxim (make it non-specific to time, place, people)
3) Imagine that everyone has the same maxim and act on it, as if it was a universal law of human nature
4) Consider whether the world you have created is rationally consistent (Can such a world exist?)

Question 11

The Formula of Humanity

Answer 11

“Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your mere means, but always at the same time as an end” don’t use people like tools