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6. One must use what and the formulation to see if an action is permissible?
- Their heart
- Reason
- Their hands
- Common sense
7. When universalising one must create a maxim such as...
- Checking that one can play the game they want before playing
- The action of playing a game loudly at night in the circumstance that it annoys the neighbors with the motive that one wants to
- Make a catapult for the game they want to play
- Don't play the game they want
8. Categorical imperatives are...
- When one does something because they have an obligation to e.g. carrying out one's duty
- The greatest good
- When one does something for want e.g. get a job because you want money
- Actions everyone benefits from
9. Hypothetical imperatives are...
- The greatest good
- When one does something because they have an obligation to e.g. carrying out one's duty
- When one does something for want e.g. get a job because you want money
- Actions everyone benefits from
10. Which of the following statements accurately describes a contradiction in will?
- An action that leads to most people not getting what they want
- An action that is universalisable in that it is logically possible, however using one's reason one will know it is not ideal
- An action that is not universaliable because it is logically impossible, e.g. would end up with the human race extinct
11. Kantian ethics is teleological
12. Which of the following does not have a contradiction in law?
- Lying to everyone
- Killing anyone who annoyed you
- Everyone must always use contraception
13. Which of the following is false about imperfect duties?
- Shows good will
- Can always perform them
- Are things one should do e.g. self development
- One has an obligation to perform them
14. Perfect duties are ones that involve beahviour you shouldn't perform, such as lying as one can always perform perfect duties
15. The third formulation of categorical imperatives is to live as if one is in a kingdom of ends, meaning to treat people as free individuals
16. Kant believed one must be concerned with the consequences of an action rather than the action itself
17. Reversalisability is...
- The process of checking whether or not one would want others to do as one has done
- Repeating what one has just done but backwards
- Apologisng for actions that went against one's conscience