L3: Categorical Imperative

Question 1

Person who proposed the categorical imperative

Answer 1

Immanuel Kant

Question 2

Immanuel Kant believed that Rationality should be the only foundation of Ethics and Morality – no God required

True or False

Answer 2

True

Question 3

It is a necessary Principle wherein you do things because it is morally correct not because of the result that is might produce, you do things because it is your duty to do good.

Answer 3

Good Will

Question 4

Categorical Imperative means,

Answer 4

Direct Order

Question 5

Rule and/or principle of action

Answer 5

Maxim

Question 6

An action is right, if and only you could rationally will it to be universal.

Answer 6

Principle Universalizability

Question 7

Act as to treat humanity/man as an end, not as a means only. It is about treating people (& ourselves) as end in themselves – as a being of intrinsic value.

Answer 7

Principle of Humanity

Question 8

When a moral agent acts, he must understand that he is not only a moral follower of universal law (moral law). He is also a maker of universal law.

Answer 8

Principle of Autonomy

Question 9

Virtue on excess and/or deficiency are called

Answer 9

vices