After reading chapter 9 in The Ethical Life, respond to the following prompts and questions. To receive full credit, you must respond to all of the prompts accurately and completely. I grade the answers based on the material in the assigned reading. Your answers need to present an accurate understanding of the content found in The Ethical Life, not what is in The Fundamentals of Ethics or on the Internet. If you choose to use outside sources to help answer the questions, you must cite them. Additionally, you need to use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation in your answers. Having excessive grammatical or typographical errors will lower your grade. Please number your answers based on the numbering in the actual assignment. I have included an assignment template to help with this. See the note below. You may write your answers as a paragraph or as bullets. The key is to answer the questions accurately and completely. There is not a set length for the answers, but, in general, a good answer for each question should amount to a small paragraph. One or two sentences is not sufficient for answering a question. This assignment will be checked for plagiarism using SafeAssign. If your answer is deemed to be plagiarized, you will receive a zero for the grade. To access the Writing Assignment, click on the link. In Chapter 9 on page 110, Kant discusses the practice of being beneficent and uses an example of a philanthropist to illustrate several key ideas in his moral philosophy. For this prompt, explain the philanthropist example, explain the meaning of inclination for Kant, and explain the difference between an action’s conformity with duty and an action being done from duty. Explain the difference between a hypothetical imperative and a categorical imperative. (See page 113) Based on the assigned reading, how does the principle of universalizability reveal lying to be wrong? (See pages 114-115) Based on the assigned reading, how does the principle of humanity reveal lying to be wrong? (See pages 117-118) How can you stay true to Kant’s basic ideas but allow for lying in some circumstances, i.e you can stop one person from harming another by lying? (Note: This is not a trick question. The key to this question is to take one of Kant’s ideas and to apply it in a way that allows for lying but stays true to the overall spirit of Kant’s morality.)
