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Questions
1. Kant says that only one kind of motive is consistent with morality. What is that motive?
2. Compare a hypothetical imperative to a categorical imperative.
3. Three students are studying for the final. One is studying hard to get an A on the final, so she can keep her 4.0 GPA. One is studying hard, so that she learns and does well in the course, because that is right thing to do. One says he is studying hard, because if he passes, his parents will let him serve food at the homeless shelter. Which of these students would Kant say have the greatest moral motive of duty? Clearly explain the rationale for your choice.
4. Kant believed that all persons, regardless of rank or social class, have an equal intrinsic worth or dignity. Human dignity is an innate worth or status that we did not earn and cannot forfeit. Kant also stated, "Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means, but always at the same time as an end".
A. Give an example of when you used someone as a means.
B. Make up an example of a situation or share an example of someone treating a person with humanity: not as a means, but as an end.