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Assignment:

Kant, "Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals":

Please answer these questions in details about the book above.

1) What is the "metaphysics of morals"?

2) Why is it more important for morality than the empirical part?

3) Why does Kant think that a "good will" is the only thing that is good without qualification?

4) Why is it clear that a good will can't have any purpose beyond itself? For instance, why is it clearly not aimed at happiness?

5) When does an action not have true moral worth, and when does it have such worth?

6)What conclusions does Kant draw about the principle of morality from the moral worth of actions?

7) What is the difference between a hypothetical and a categorical imperative? What are the different kinds of hypothetical imperatives?

8) How does the very notion of a categorical imperative help us to derive the first version of the categorical imperative?

9) What are the two different kinds of ends, and how do they differ from each other? How does Kant derive the second version of the categorical imperative from this distinction?

10) How does Kant arrive at the third version of the categorical imperative, and what does it show about the nature of morality?