Immanuel Kant

What will be an ideal response?


held that the supreme prescription of morality is to act always in such a way that you could rationally will the principle on which you act to be a universal law. He believed that what you should do, you should do, not because it promotes some end but simply because it is right.

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What will be an ideal response?

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A functionalist argues that

A) belief in a mind generally helps humans function better. B) minds are reducible to computers. C) minds are like the software of brains. D) the characteristics of minds will ultimately be explained in terms of brain states.

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Hume states that freedom is ____

A. Doing what you are told B. An illusion C. Doing what you want D. Another word for nothing left to lose

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The purpose of the Ontological Argument is to convert agnostics into believers

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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