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Chapter 9
1. Anscombe’s point was that some things may not be done, no matter what. Referring to the boiling of babies.
2. Kant called these “hypothetical imperatives” because they tell us what to do providing that we have the relevant desires.
3. Instead moral requirements are categorical: they have the form “You ought to do such-and –such period,”
4. In his Foundations of the Metaphysical of Morals (1785), he (Kant) expresses the Categorical Imperative as follows: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Chapter 10
1. Kant gave this principle (the Categorical Imperative, RS) different formulations, but at one point he expresses it like this: Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only.
2. From this reading, give your definition of a RETRIBUTIONIST. From this reading my definition for retributionist is someone who feels that there must be retribution. In other words that someone must be punished for their action (2 pts.)
3. According to Utilitarian’s punishment should only be allowed if the good it does outweighs the bad. What are four possible goods that punishment could bring about?
a. First, punishment provides comfort and gratification to victims and their families.
b. Second, by locking up criminals, or by executing them, we are to take them off the street.
c. Third, punishment reduces crime by deterring would be criminal. Someone who is tempted to commit a crimes might not do so if he or she know there will be a punishment.
d. Fourth, a well-designed system of punishment might help to rehabilitate wrongdoers.
4. Kant’s principles describe a general theory of punishment: First, people should be punished simply because they have committed crimes, and for no other reason. Second,
1. Anscombe’s point was that some things may not be done, no matter what. Referring to the boiling of babies.
2. Kant called these “hypothetical imperatives” because they tell us what to do providing that we have the relevant desires.
3. Instead moral requirements are categorical: they have the form “You ought to do such-and –such period,”
4. In his Foundations of the Metaphysical of Morals (1785), he (Kant) expresses the Categorical Imperative as follows: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Chapter 10
1. Kant gave this principle (the Categorical Imperative, RS) different formulations, but at one point he expresses it like this: Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only.
2. From this reading, give your definition of a RETRIBUTIONIST. From this reading my definition for retributionist is someone who feels that there must be retribution. In other words that someone must be punished for their action (2 pts.)
3. According to Utilitarian’s punishment should only be allowed if the good it does outweighs the bad. What are four possible goods that punishment could bring about?
a. First, punishment provides comfort and gratification to victims and their families.
b. Second, by locking up criminals, or by executing them, we are to take them off the street.
c. Third, punishment reduces crime by deterring would be criminal. Someone who is tempted to commit a crimes might not do so if he or she know there will be a punishment.
d. Fourth, a well-designed system of punishment might help to rehabilitate wrongdoers.
4. Kant’s principles describe a general theory of punishment: First, people should be punished simply because they have committed crimes, and for no other reason. Second,