Week 7 Quiz 7

Front 1

For Kant, having civil rights and having the authorization to use coercion are one and the same thing

Back 1

True

Front 2

Immanuel Kant lived primarily i what time period?

Back 2

1700's

Front 3

In Kant's Doctirine of Right, he argued that in order to establish the sole and final end of peace, it would be necessary to have a civil constitution based on:

Back 3

-External coercion
-Universal Freedom
-Reciprocity

Front 4

Kant argued that beings, no matter how perfected, must leave the induvidual state of nature and bind themselves to the social civil condition.

Back 4

True

Front 5

Kant argues that in ancient times there was just one morality in general. However as time progressed it was considered helpful to divide it into two divisions: civil rights and virtue

Back 5

True

Front 6

Kant held that freedom that is compatible witht he freedom of others is the only original right belonging to all.

Back 6

True

Front 7

Kant held that in terms of civil right, if someone has never affected the civil rights of others then that person has not done anyone any civil wrong.

Back 7

True

Front 8

Kant held that regardless of whether or not perpetual peace is real or fiction, society needs to construct the political framework in such a way that it promotes perpetual peace putting an end to the heinous waging of war.

Back 8

True

Front 9

Kant held that the underlying principle in civil law is the principle of reciprocity or social contract. If somene violates someone else's civil rights then that person loses his or her civil rights. Reciprocity arises from a universal rule.

Back 9

True

Front 10

Kant's a priori structure of civil rights is only necessary when sociey is imperfect. In other words, a perfect society would never have the need for civil rights.

Back 10

False

Front 11

Kant thought it was a contradiciton of universal freedom to take away the freedom of an individual that violates other individual's freedoms

Back 11

False

Front 12

Kant thought it would be a violation of universal freedom to force all citizens to create a social contract and to then make the citizens conform or abide to the social contract mandates by coercion if necessary.

Back 12

False

Front 13

Kant thought that civil law had a dual purpose of not only determining what actions are right, i.e., what actions can coexist with everyone's freedom, but also served to teach virtue, i.e., self-perfection and the happiness of others.

Back 13

False

Front 14

Kant thought that the civil condition is determined by a priori concepts of universal freedom and the teleological end of perpetual peace.

Back 14

True

Front 15

Match Kant's terms of what is defined as civilly wrong and civilly right.

Back 15

WRONG=THat which hinders universal freedom
RIGHT=that which hinders the hindering of universal freedom, ie. external coercion.

Front 16

Match Kant's two divisions of morality with what they focus on:

Back 16

Virtue=Focuses on all that is not based on external laws and coercion
Civil Rights=Focuses on external laws and coercion

Front 17

The Doctrine of RIght is Kant's social and political position on how the formal criteria of universal freedom ought to ve used in the development of civil laws in order to attain the final end of social peace as determined by reciprocity and motivated by external coercion.

Back 17

True

Front 18

When dealing with Kants Doctrine of Right, what is the considered motivation for compliance with civil law?

Back 18

-Coercion

Front 19

Which of the following was Kant's latest and most mature work on ethics?

Back 19

-Mataphysics of Morals