IDENTIFICATION

1. A rule that connects an action to the reasons for the action, i.e., a
motivation/goal/context.
ANSWER: MAXIM
2. The state or condition of self-governance, or leading one's life according to reasons,
values, or desires that are authentically one's own.
ANSWER: AUTONOMOUS ACTION
3. The normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether
that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than
based on the consequences of the action.
ANSWER: DEONTOLOGY
4. This moral theory immediately promulgates the specific actions that comprise that
theory. As such, it identifies the particular duties in a straightforward manner that the
adherents of the theory must follow.
ANSWER: SUBSTANTIVE MORAL THEORY
5. This moral theory does not supply the rules or commands straightaway. It does not tell
you what you may or may not do. Instead, a formal moral theory provides us the "form"
or "framework" of the moral theory.
ANSWER: FORMAL MORAL THEORY
6. Philosopher associated with Deontology.
ANSWER: IMMANUEL KANT
7. This formal moral theory provides a procedural way of identifying the rightness or
wrongness of an action.
ANSWER: CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
8. Give an example of a Substantive Moral Theory
ANSWER: The Ten Commandments
9-12. The four key elements in the formulation of the Categorical Imperative
ANSWER: ACTION, MAXIM, WILL, UNIVERSAL LAW
13. According to Kant, we should act on a maxim that could pass the concept of ______.
ANSWER: Universalizability
14. This moral theory will not give us a list of rules or commands. Instead, it will give us a set
of instructions on how to make a list of duties or moral commands.
ANSWER: FORMAL MORAL THEORY
15. We act according to a variety of ______, even if we are not aware of them.
ANSWER: MAXIMS
16.A promise made without good faith or intention
ANSWER: FALSE PROMISES
17-18. What are the two ways by which Kant rejects maxims?
ANSWER: SELF-CONTRADICTORY AND THE ACT AND ITS PURPOSE BECOME
IMPOSSIBLE
19. The intrinsic quality of an action that is objectively and necessarily rational.
ANSWER: RATIONAL PERMISSIBILITY
20. A specific act under the general category of acts
 ANSWER: FALSE PROMISES
21.A specific act under the general category of acts
ANSWER: COOKBOOK
22. A maxim consists of a ¨____¨ that we live by in our day-to-day lives, but it does not have
the status of a law or a moral command that binds us to act in a certain way.
ANSWER: RULE
23. Kant states that we must formulate an action as a maxim, which he defines as a?
ANSWER: SUBJECTIVE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION
24-25. A formal moral theory provides us the ¨____¨ or ¨_______¨of the moral theory.
ANSWER: FORM AND FRAMEWORK
26. Kant claims that the ________ ____ ¨could never be valid as a universal law of nature
and be consistent with itself, but must necessarily contradict itself.¨
ANSWER: UNIVERSALIZED MAXIM
27-29. Kant believed that ethical actions follow universal moral laws, such as?
ANSWER: DON’T LIE, DON’T STEAL, AND DON’T CHEAT
30. They cannot be rejected as universalizable maxims.
ANSWER: RATIONAL PERMISSIBILITY OF ACTIONS