Week 7 Quiz 8

Front 1

Beneficence is a perfect duty.

Back 1

False

Front 2

Casuistry is a practice in how to seek truth. It leads to questions that call upon judgment to decide how a maxim is to be applied to particular cases.

Back 2

True

Front 3

For Kant virtue starts with a priori maxims of actions, then the moral agent derives the ends that they have a duty to seek out.

Back 3

True

Front 4

How a moral agent attains self-perfection and happiness of others is going to be different for eery person and different for every circumstance and thus ethics is a practice of casuistry.

Back 4

True

Front 5

Imperfect duties of virtue requires that the moral agent not only specify the maxims of acitons, but also balance them with the other maxims of acitons.

Back 5

True

Front 6

In Kant's Doctrine of Virtue, self-constraint by "awe of ones freedom" is the only motive that has any moral worth.

Back 6

True

Front 7

Kant argued that one's own happiness is an inclination of nature and therefore can never be a duty. However, the happiness of others is not an inclination of nature and therefore can, and in this case is a moral end that is also a duty.

Back 7

True

Front 8

Kant argues that a categorical imperative can ony be recognized by a priori reasoning.

Back 8

True

Front 9

Kant held that self-perfection of the will would be the develpment of the purest virtuous disposition in which the motivation for compliance to the moral agents' self-legislation is the sublime awe of the fact of:

Back 9

ALL

Front 10

Kant held that self-perfection was manifested by:

Back 10

Both

Front 11

Kant held that the supreme principle of the doctrine of virtue or ethics is: act in accordance with a maxim of ends that it can be a universal law for everyone to have.

Back 11

True

Front 12

Kant held that with vivil rights others can be costrained to perfromed certain actions. WIth virtue the choice of moral ends cannot be coerced rather they can only be freely chosen.

Back 12

True

Front 13

Kant in his Doctrine of Virtue argues that by a priori reasons there are ends that are also duties that must be feely chosen. What are they?

Back 13

-happiness of others
-ones own perfection

Front 14

Kant, in his Doctrine of Virtue, held that each person in society has a moral obligation or duty to perfect others.

Back 14

False

Front 15

Kant in the Doctrine of Right argues that civil law starts with peace as the social end and then creates a framework of justice with legislation that maximizes the universal freedom of all citizens. However, what ends a citizen chooses to have is totally left up to the individual as long as the end is compativle wit the freedom of others.

Back 15

True

Front 16

Kant in the Doctrine of Virtue argues that one of theends that is also a duty is that of one's own happiness.

Back 16

False

Front 17

Kant's Doctrine of virtue is composed of perfect duties.

Back 17

False

Front 18

Match the approprate characteristics of to the Doctrine of Right and the Doctrine of Virtue.

Back 18

Right=Legislation prescribes precisely what the action that is being legislated is and the penalties for violation.
Virtue=Maxims of action, not specific actions are being prescribed and how an individual fulfills the maxim is determined by the agents' judgment giving the moral agent payromm for free choice in following the ethical law

Front 19

Match the following

Back 19

Imperfect Duty=Do not know what specific aciton is to be done and towho those actions should be dierected
Perfect duty=Know exactly what action is to be done and to who the action is to be directed towards.

Front 20

Match the following to narrow and wide duties.

Back 20

Happiness of others=wide duty
perpetual peace=narrow duties
One's own perfetion=wide duty

Front 21

Perpetual peace is a wide duty and one's own perfection and the happiness of others are narrow duties.

Back 21

False