Phil 186 quiz 4

According to the reading by Heather Salazar, in Determining the Right Action and Motivation, you must

All of these.

When you will something to be a universal law, you must also worry about what the consequences of that willing (doing) might be.

False

According to another formulation of Kant's moral principle, you should act so that the maxim of your action becomes a universal act. This means that you should will that what you do (when you act) is done by everyone!

True

Kantian ethics does not prohibit individuals from seeking their own happiness, which may include prosperity in business. However, it identifies constraints on what we may do in the pursuit of our own happiness or profits: we must give equal respect to all rational individuals by exercising our own rationality and allowing others to do the same.

True

To rationally consent to something is to agree to something by reasoning about it.

True

A maxim is a technical term in Kant's philosophy; it refers to a

a subjective principle of action.

Kant's moral theory revolves around his principle of morality. He calls it the

categorical imperative.

Immanuel Kant's moral theory is also called

deontology.

Kant's moral principle is divided into two different formulations. The first formulation, or the humanity formulation, requires that you should never treat another person merely as a(n) _____________________.

means to an end.

An ethical theory is consequentialist if its moral value lies not in the intention but on the consequence of an action. Utilitarianism is a consequentialism; Kant's ethical theory is a version not of consequentialism, but rather of

non-consequentialism