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The document provides definitions for key concepts in deontological ethics such as maxim, autonomy, deontology, formal and substantive moral theories. It discusses Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative as a formal moral theory that provides a framework for identifying right and wrong actions. According to Kant, we should only act in accordance with maxims, or subjective principles of action, that could be universally applied without contradiction. Examples of maxims that meet this standard include duties not to lie, steal, or cheat.

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Universalizability Questions

The document provides definitions for key concepts in deontological ethics such as maxim, autonomy, deontology, formal and substantive moral theories. It discusses Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative as a formal moral theory that provides a framework for identifying right and wrong actions. According to Kant, we should only act in accordance with maxims, or subjective principles of action, that could be universally applied without contradiction. Examples of maxims that meet this standard include duties not to lie, steal, or cheat.

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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

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