Deck 6: Deontological Ethics and Immanuel Kant

Question 1

According to Kant, we are morally responsible for which of the following?

A)For people's understandings of our actions.
B)For anticipating the effect of our action.
C)For the actual result of our action.
D)For our motive to do good or bad.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following best paraphrases Kant's second form of the categorical imperative?

A)Think before you act.
B)Treat others as well as you can without denying yourself what you need.
C)Treat yourself well but watch out for others also.
D)Don't use people unless it is in their best interest.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Hypothetical imperatives are

A)Complicated philosophical constructs seeking to arrive at moral goal.
B)Like suggesting we should use what works to arrive at a goal.
C)Actions that, in theory, should always be taken given certain circumstances
D)Actions all people should take to arrive at the same goal.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

"Act only on that maxim you can will to become universal law" is known as which form of Kant's categorical imperative?

A)First
B)Second
C)Only
D)Third

Question 5

According to Kant, an obligation or "ought" is categorical when it is something we ought to do in order to achieve some ends or goals that we have.

Question 6

According to Kant, which of the following has the highest intrinsic value?

A)Beauty
B)Justice
C)Personhood
D)Happiness

Question 7

According to Kant, to act with a "good will" means to do what will benefit others.

Question 8

According to Kant, one can do what is right and that action still may not have "moral worth."

Question 9

According to your text, which of the following was one of two main questions Kant asked?

A)What ought I do?
B)How do I choose right action?
C)Why should I act?
D)How important are people?

Question 10

According to Kant, moral obligations are hypothetical in nature.

Question 11

According to Kant, the shopkeeper who charges an equal price of all her customers because she likes them is acting "out of duty."

Question 12

According to Kant, the highest moral activity happens as a result of

A)Acting out of a will to do the right thing.
B)Putting the rights of others before our own rights.
C)Acting in ways that benefit everyone.
D)Acting to prevent harm.

Question 13

The reason why it is wrong to make a lying promise, according to Kant, is because this act cannot be willed as a general practice without contradiction.

Question 14

According to Kant, because persons are ends they ought not to be used as means to ends.

Question 15

Moral "oughts" are all of the following EXCEPT

A)Unconditional.
B)Anchored in the fact that all people are alike as persons.
C)Necessary.
D)Supported by laws.

Question 16

Label as Hypothetical (H)or Categorical (C)imperatives.
If I want to achieve fame and fortune I should work for it.

Question 17

Label as Hypothetical (H)or Categorical (C)imperatives.
I should vote for this proposal so that the others will later vote for mine.

Question 18

Kant's first form of the categorical imperative is derived from the idea that moral obligation as universally binding.

Question 19

According to Kant the moral worth of an act is determined by its consequences.

Question 20

Label as Hypothetical (H)or Categorical (C)imperatives.
Whether or not you want to tell her the truth, you ought to do so.

Question 21

According to Kant, it is wrong to lie in order to prevent a murder.

Question 22

Using Kant's second form of the categorical imperative, explain why it should be wrong to steal bread in order to feed a starving child.

Question 23

Using Kant's first form of the categorical imperative, explain why Kant believes that lying is always wrong.

Question 24

Label as Hypothetical (H)or Categorical (C)imperatives.
I ought to tell the truth because the only way I could lie and get away with it is if people generally are honest. I would be expecting others then to behave in ways that I myself would not.

Question 25

What is the difference between a categorical imperative and a hypothetical imperative? Why does Kant believe that moral obligations should be described as categorical, rather than hypothetical?

Question 26

Which of the following is NOT a deontological theory of ethics?

A)Kant's categorical imperative.
B)Egoism.
C)Divine command theory.
D)Stoicism.