Exam 11: The Universalist: Immanuel Kant

Who developed the idea of the original position ?

Heinrich Hein claimed that Kant had no life in the proper sense of the term.

Who held that the demand for intellectual honesty is itself dishonest?

The term moral is from Latin.

What, for Kant, are actions based on desire known as?

What is good, for Moore?

Moral responsibility involves determining who did what.

Where does free will exist, for Kant?

Outline Kant s account of what makes an action moral. In what ways is Kant s view superficially like the Golden Rule ( Do as you would be done by ), and in what way is it different? Is Kant s account of morality objective, or subjective? What about the Golden Rule?

Who viewed the human mind as a passive receiver of impressions?

Kant accepted Hume s skepticism.

How does Kant s account of morality differ from that of Hume? How do these differences reflect the epistemological differences between these two philosophers?

The precise time of Kant s daily walk is well-documented.

Nonmoral is sometimes used interchangeably with amoral .

Outline the sort of society that Rawls believes would be just. How does this reflect a Kantian concern with persons as ends? What is the objection that Okin levels against Rawls view? Do you believe that Rawls could meet this objection? What other objections might be developed against Rawls position? Do you believe that they could be met?

Kant argues that we can directly experience noumena.

What has nothing to do with the enjoyment of life, for Kant?

Who wrote A Theory of Justice ?

Who allegedly confused knowledge that is triggered by experience with that which is based on experience?

What is the second regulative idea of speculative reason, for Kant?