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. |
False |
According to Kant the moral worth of an act is determined by its consequences |
False |
According to MacKinnon, which of the following was one of main two questions Kant asked? |
NOT How important are people? |
According to Kant, because persons are ends they ought not to be used as means to ends |
True |
According to Kant, the highest moral activity happens as a result of |
d. Acting out of a will to do the right thing. |
According to Kant, one can do what is right and that action still may not have "moral worth." |
True |
According to Kant, moral obligations are hypothetical in nature. |
False |
According to Kant, what has the highest intrinsic value? |
People |
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. |
True |
According to Kant, we are morally responsible for which of the following? |
b. For our motive to do good or bad. |
"Act only on that maxim you can will to become universal law" is known as which form of Kant’s categorical imperative? |
a. First |
According to Kant, the shopkeeper who charges an equal price of all her customers because she likes them is acting "out of duty." |
False |
Stoicism, which is a form of deontological ethics, maintains that |
a. We are unable to control the consequences of our actions. |
According to Kant, to act with a "good will" means to do what will benefit others. |
False |
A good paraphrase of Kant’s second form of the categorical imperative is |
Don’t use people unless it is in their best interest |
According to Kant, because persons are ends they ought not to be used as means to ends. |
True |
According to Kant the moral worth of an act is determined by its consequences. |
False |
Moral "oughts" are all of the following except |
Supported by laws |
Kant’s first form of the categorical imperative is derived from the nature of moral obligation as universally binding. |
True |
The illustration in the beginning of chapter five suggests using humans as "guinea pigs" was immoral because |
The persons in the experiment had not consented to the study |
Hypothetical imperatives are |
Like suggesting we should use what works to arrive at a goal. |
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