Kantian ethics

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What sets humans apart from animals?
Ability to rationalise
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What is the moral law?
An objective moral law beyound personal interest
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How do we know the moral law?
Through reason
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What is our duty?
To follow the moral law and achieve good will
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What is an analytic statement?
The contrary is not possible
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What is a synthetic statement?
The contrary is possible
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What did Kant believe about the hypothetical imperative?
They cannot be moral
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What is the categorical imperative?
Acting in a certain way regardless of consequences
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What is the universal law?
Don't act how you wouldn't want others to act
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What is the second principle of the categorical imperative?
Treating humans as ends in themselves
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What does it mean to 'act as though you live in a kingdom of ends'?
Act as the moral law tells us
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What are the three postulates?
Freedom, immortality, God
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Why is freedom important?
We need to be free to do our duty
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Why is immortality necessary?
We cannot always achieve summum bonnum in this life
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Why is God in Kant's theory?
A moral law requires a law giver
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