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Freedom
Personal Responsibility (Immanuel Kant)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What states the main aim is to ensure the happiness of all people? | Plato's the "Republic" |
| Who felt no generally valid principle of legislation could be based on happiness? | Immanuel Knat |
| What was gained and felt in different ways by different people? | Happiness |
| What must be agreed as applicable to all, and reflective of the common will? | Laws |
| What famous monarch was executed in 1793? | King Louis XVI of France |
| Who said "No one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others"? | Immanuel Knat |
| What consists solely in the restriction of the freedom of others? | All right |
| What states that you should act only according to the rules that you would wish to be universally applicable? | Kant's categorical imperative |
| What has to be made impossible so that happiness alone can never be a suitable principle of legislation? | All fixed principles |
| What is a recipe for anarchy? | A state of nature |
| What must government's remember? | That they govern only by the people's consent |
| What must you do when the government passes a law which you consider to be wrong? | Obey it |
| What must each person act as when making moral choices? | Lawmakers |
| What is the supreme law of the state? | Public welfare |
| What are the two sets of government duties? | Protect rights, liberties, and promote the happiness of the people. |
| At what age did Kant enroll as a theology student? | 16 |
| How did Kant gain international fame? | With the publication of his "Critiques" |
| Who is considered by many to be the greatest thinker of the 18th century? | Immanuel Knat |