Part 1: Kant
1) What is the worst thing we can do for morality?
2) Why can’t even Jesus Christ serve as a model for moral action?
3) What does Kant mean when he says “Actions which are recognized to be objectively necessary are subjectively contingent?”
4) What is the relationship between the objective principle of reason and the subjective will?
5) What are the two different kinds of imperatives?
6) What is the natural law formulation of the categorical imperative and how is it supposed to work?
7) On the natural law formulation, why is suicide immoral?
8) On the natural law formulation, why is a lying promise immoral?
9) On the natural law formulation, why is not developing one’s talents immoral?
10) On the natural law formulation, why is rejecting to give to charity immoral?
11) Explain the two tests for consistency of natural law and maxim. What two different kinds of duties are illustrated?
12) What is the end-in-itself formulation of the categorical imperative?
13) On the end-in-itself formulation, why is suicide immoral?
14) On the end-in-itself formulation, why is a false promise immoral?
15) On the end-in-itself formulation, why is rejecting talent’s immoral?
16) On the end-in-itself formulation, why is rejecting charity immoral?
