Ethics Ch.6

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.

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

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

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

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

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

According to Kant, moral obligations are hypothetical in nature.

According to Kant, what has the highest intrinsic value?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moral "oughts" are all of the following except

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

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

Hypothetical imperatives are