Day 3: Kant on Duty

•     Review of Objectivity

•     Truth and Knowledge

•     Introduction to the FPMM

•     Good Will and Duty

•      Please Read Section Two of the FPMM

Truth and Knowledge

•      Are truth and knowledge the same thing?  If so, why?  If not, why not?

•      Objective sense of truth

•      Objective sense of knowledge

•      a priori and a posteriori knowledge

Introduction to the FPMM

•      What is a metaphysic of morals?

•      How our discussions of objectivity can help us to understand what Kant is up to

Good Will and Duty

•      Why is the good will the only thing that is good in an unqualified sense?

•      What is the relationship between a good will and the results of an action?

•      What is the point of the merchant example?

Good Will and Duty

•      Three propositions pertaining to duty

•      Summary: why do you think that Kant thinks the expressions “duty” and “moral law” capture something useful about morality?

For Next Time

•      What is a maxim?

•      What is an imperative (in general)?

•      What is a hypothetical imperative?

•      What is a categorical imperative?