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WorksheetsKant and Deontology
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 9mins
What should our relationship to duty be?
Act in accordance with duty.
Act out of duty.
Under which classification would we place Kant's ethical system?
Easy
Teleological
Deontological
Consequential
Complete the blank: Categorical [BLANK]
Imperative
Hypothetical
Categorical
Duty
Why is acting in accordance with duty not morally praiseworthy?
Because it's a bad act.
Because you are doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
Because you are a bad person.
Because you are acting in accordance with a good will.
For Kant all humans are [WHAT] rather than [WHAT]?
Ends rather than means
Means rather than ends
Jolly nice
Lovely people who should be treasured
Kant thought we worked out our duty by...
Listening to outside authorities
Using our reason
Responding to our intuition
Looking at the consequences of our actions
What is "universalizbility"?
When a maxim takes motives into account.
When someone can justify the application of a maxim to themselves
Whether a maxim can be applied to everyone or not.
Which of these are examples of acting in accordance with duty?
Treating customers well, so that they come back.
Being honest, because being honest is universalizable.
A parent helping their child with their homework because the parent enjoys it.
According to Kant, although two people might do essentially the same thing and produce essentially the same utility in their consequences, it still seems possible for one to be acting immorally while the other is acting morally.
True
False
Anything that I might do with the purpose of helping another would qualify as an exercise of Kant's Good Will.
True
False
Deontological theories commonly take which of the following pairs into account?
an act's effects and an actor's intentions
the kind of act and an act's effects
the kind of act and an actor's intentions
Kant would view stealing as immoral because
it hurts people
we wouldn't like it if our possessions were stolen
it would be impossible to 'steal' something for oneself if people always took whatever they wanted from each other
Kant's ethics allows us to lie to an enemy if others' lives are at stake. This is because Kant recognises that the resulting loss of lives is much worse than the damage likely to result from a single lie.
True
False
Why, according to Kant, does virtue ethics fail to guide us to what is good?
Because 'virtues' can be used to achieve evil ends, such as intelligence being used to design deadly weapons
Because Aristotle doesn't consider reason to be a virtue
Because Virtue Ethics doesn't consider the consequences of an action
