PHL100Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hypothetical Imperative, Categorical Imperative, Rationality
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Morality refers to a code of conduct that would be accepted by anyone meeting certain intellectual/volitional conditions (including rationality) Recognizing your capacity for acting commits you to recognize your own rationality. Recognizing your rationality commits you to being rational (acting consistently) Being committed to acting consistently commits you to taking the maxim of your action to be universalized. As a rational being, you see the force of reasons. To be immoral is to fail to be rational (committed to morality) Rational agency= conformity to categorical imperative: explain and discuss how kant"s categorical imperative (in both its main formulations) deals with lying, and with failing to help those in need. In each case, how strictly does the principle imply the duty. Be sure to explain the meaning of the phrase the maxim of an action and the role it plays in the categorical imperative. Categorical imperative: universality, act as if maxim of action were to become a universal law of nature.
