A thorough and complete response to each item must demonstrate that
you are able to:
Discuss
Analyze
Synthesize
Evaluate
the theories of concern. Your responses need to include an explanation of your position and why or why not you agree or disagree.
1. Explain Sartre’s distinction between being in-itself and being for-itself. In your response include a thorough and complete explanation of:
being-in-itself
being-for-itself
the difference between being-in-itself and being-for-itself
essential and effective freedom as they relate to Sartres beliefs.
bad faith as it relates to Sartres beliefs.
2. Explain Immanuel Kants theory of moral behavior which is governed by categorical imperatives which are substantiated by moral absolutes. In your response include a thorough and complete explanation of:
non-consequential morality
categorical imperatives
why categorical imperatives are an example of non-consequential morality
how truisms or categorical imperatives become a mental construct which directs human behavior.
3. Ethical theories are intended to explain/substantiate what is good and how ones definition of good affects his/her mental constructs and behavior. Below are listed three theoretical propositions about ethical principles. Explain each proposition, discuss your reasoning as to their merit as a philosophical theory (Epistemology: how you know they are right or wrong; Metaphysics: are they indicative of what a human is and how they ought to be), and why you accept them and/or why you do not accept them.
Ethical principles must be taught
Ethical principles are innate
Ethical principles do not exist. The moral Individual responds situationally.
