English Question


Question 11 pts

According to Kant, to act with a “good will” means to do what will benefit others.

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Question 21 pts

Label as Hypothetical (H) or Categorical (C) imperatives.

Whether or not you want to tell her the truth, you ought to do so.

According to Kant, what has the highest intrinsic value?

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Question 41 pts

According to Kant, because persons are ends they ought not to be used as means to ends.

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Question 51 pts

According to Kant, an obligation or “ought” is categorical when it is something we ought to do in order to achieve some ends or goals that we have.

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Stoicism, which is a form of deontological ethics, maintains that

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Question 71 pts

According to Kant the moral worth of an act is determined by its consequences.

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Question 81 pts

Moral “oughts” are all of the following except

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Question 91 pts

According to Kant, moral obligations are hypothetical in nature.

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Question 101 pts

Kant’s first form of the categorical imperative is derived from the nature of moral obligation as universally binding.

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Question 111 pts

Label as Hypothetical (H) or Categorical (C) imperatives.

I ought to tell the truth because the only way I could lie and get away with it is if people generally are honest. I would be expecting others than to behave in ways that I myself would not.

Question 121 pts

A good paraphrase of Kant’s second form of the categorical imperative is

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Question 131 pts

State two practical differences between a perfect and an imperfect duty.

Question 141 pts

The reason why it is wrong to make a lying promise, according to Kant, is because this act cannot be willed as a general practice without contradiction.

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Question 151 pts

According to Kant, we are morally responsible for which of the following?

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Question 161 pts

Label as Hypothetical (H) or Categorical (C) imperatives.

I should vote for this proposal so that the others will later vote for mine.

Question 171 pts

Compare the principle of utility as a consequentialist moral principle with the categorical imperative as a non-consequentialist moral principle.

Question 181 pts

The illustration in the beginning of chapter five suggests using humans as “guinea pigs” was immoral because

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Question 191 pts

According to Kant, the highest moral activity happens as a result of

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Question 201 pts

Hypothetical imperatives are

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Question 211 pts

Label as Hypothetical (H) or Categorical (C) imperatives.

If I want to achieve fame and fortune I should work for it.

Question 221 pts

According to Kant, one can do what is right and that action still may not have “moral worth.”

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Question 231 pts

According to MacKinnon, which of the following was one of main two questions Kant asked?

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Question 241 pts

According to Kant, the shopkeeper who charges an equal price of all her customers because she likes them is acting “out of duty.”

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Question 251 pts

“Act only on that maxim you can will to become universal law” is known as which form of Kant’s categorical imperative?

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