Study Guide - Unit 2

At a Glance: A Study Guide for Readings
Immanuel Kant

Below is a tentative list of material for you to focus on as you progress through the text.

1) Students should be familiar with the distinction between “Rational” knowledge and “Empirical” knowledge as presented in class.
2) Students should be able to discuss consequentialism and deontology as two (2) approaches to moral reasoning and justification.
3) Students should be able to re-state Kant’s explicit aim for the Groundwork.
4) Students should know what single thing Kant says is unconditionally good and be able to explain why positive value all other “goods” is only conditional and, as such, are secondary.
5) Students should be able to articulate the supreme principle of morality (according to Kant).
6) Students should know the three (3) formulations of the categorical imperative covered in class and be able to discuss/explain one at length.