Assignment: Plato, Euthyphro II
Ethics for Dummies, by Panza & Potthast, provide written answers to the following questions. Please give complete answers in complete sentences.
• What is a moral principle? How does it differ from a moral rule?
• What is practical reason?
• What is the difference between acting from duty and acting from inclination?
• What is the difference between acting in accord with duty and acting from duty? (Use the honest shopkeeper as an example.)
• What is the difference between heteronomy and autonomy? What is the connection between living ethically and living free?
• What is a maxim?
• What is an imperative? What is the difference between a hypothetical imperative and the categorical imperative?
• What is the Formula of Universal Law? Explain what it means.
• What is a universalizability test? (NOTE: Panza & Potthast misspell it!)
• What is the Formula of Humanity? Explain what it means.
• What is a kingdom of ends? How is the Formula of the Kingdom of Ends related to the two previous formulas?
• What do Panza & Potthast say is the difference between perfect duties and imperfect duties? (NOTE: In trying to simplify the distinction, they may miss what is essential. Note later how Mill characterizes the difference.)
• How does the Formula of Universal Law help distinguish perfect from imperfect duties? (NOTE: Panza & Potthast do a pretty good job with this.)
• What is one of the four examples of specific duties Kant uses, and how does violating it also violate the categorical imperative?
• Why might it be a problem that duties in Kantian ethics are unconditional?
• Why might it be a problem that Kantian ethics focuses on rationality (and rational beings)?
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, and typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.