Instruction
These are the questions:
1A. Why is it that for Kant the Good Will is the only thing that is good without qualification? What are
the things that Kant says are good but these things are not good without qualification? Why is that so?
(15 points)
1B. Discuss in detail the merchant case to show when a person is acting with a good will (10 points)
2A. Discuss in detail the case of a person who find himself in a dire financial circumstance to show how
a maxim arises for Kant? (10 points)
2B. For Kant, would it be possible to universalize the maxim of making a false promise? Explain fully
why so? (10 points)
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3A. Differentiate between Kant’s hypothetical imperative and categorical imperative. Give your own
example of a hypothetical imperative. (10 points)
3B. For Kant, which of these two imperatives is the moral imperative? Explain fully why this is so for
Kant. (10 points)
4A. State fully and clearly each of the 3 formulations of the categorical imperative. (10 points)
4B. Take one of the 4 cases (Cahn/Markie, pp. 337-338) that Kant considers in the reading, and use that
case to show how each of the three formulations of the categorical imperative is to be applied to that
case. (10 points)
5. Differentiate between:
a. Acting from duty and acting according to duty (provide your own example to show their
difference) (Kant) (3 points)
b. Consequentialist ethics and non-consequentialist ethics (3 points)
c. Person and thing (Kant) (3 points)
d. Autonomy of the will and heteronomy of the will (Kant) (3 points)
e. Universality principle and humanity principle (Kant) (3 points)