Multiple Choice Quiz

According to Herman, even sympathetic readers of Kant have been troubled by:

the inflexibility of Kant's ethics.

Kant's claim that dutiful actions have no moral worth unless performed for the sake of duty.

the way it treats consequences as morally irrelevant.

all of the above.

According to Herman, Kant's cases of good willing are set up as cases:

that demonstrate human frailty.

that show the connection between good willing and autonomy.

where good willing is perspicuous.

as the only kinds of cases of good willing.

According to the "fitness report" model of moral worth, a dutiful act has moral worth:

under any circumstances.

if respect for duty was present and would have sufficed to produce the act by itself.

only if it is done from duty and no supporting inclinations would have sufficed to produce it.

under no circumstances whatsoever.

Herman believes that Kant accepts:

the "battle citation" model of moral worth.

the "fitness report" model of moral worth.

both a and b.

neither a nor b.

Herman claims that an action can have moral worth if it is overdetermined with respect to:

incentives, but not if it is overdetermined with respect to motives.

motives, but not if it is overdetermined with respect to incentives.

both motives or incentives.

none of the above.

As Kant sees it, moral deliberation characteristically begins with:

reflection on duty.

reflection on the good will.

a demand placed on us by others.

a nonmoral interest or motive.

According to Herman's interpretation of Kant, the only actions that can have moral worth are those that are:

permissible but not obligatory.

obligatory.

supererogatory.

motivated by sympathy.

Herman claims that in Kant's view, when we act from the motive of duty we are:

free.

only partially free.

wholly unfree.

devoid of all desire.

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