Day 4: Imperatives, an Introduction

•      Review and Questions

•      Duty and Moral Law

•      Maxims and Imperatives

•      Two Kinds of Imperatives

•      Versions of the Categorical Imperative

•      Please read Section Two of FPMM (again)

Duty and Moral Law

•      Three propositions pertaining to duty

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

Maxims and Imperatives

•      What is a maxim?

•      What is an imperative?

Two Kinds of Imperatives

•      What is a hypothetical imperative?

•      What is a categorical imperative?

Versions of the Categorical Imperative

•      What is (are) the first version(s) of the categorical imperative all about?

•      What is the second version of the categorical imperative all about?

•      How many other versions of the categorical imperative are there?