This assignment must be submitted by 6/19/2016. All work must be your own and written in your own words. I do not want you to quote the text, but if you do, you must explain those quotes in your own words. Failure to do so will earn you a zero for the assignment.
Type your responses to these questions in a separate Word document.
1) Kant believed that moral knowledge comes to us through rational intuition in the form of moral rules, and as such is a rule-intuitionist of a special sort. Do you think Kant is correct in his assessment of the rational ability of humans? Would you agree with either act-intuitionism or rule-intuitionism? Why or why not?
2) Your text states that Kant has an absolutist position on prohibiting suicide. Given his maxim that if everyone committed suicide it would not be beneficial for humanity, what do you think about his absolutist position? Is suicide an action that is morally and socially universally prohibitive?
3) Kant presents three formulations of the categorical imperative. Explain and describe one of these three formulations of the categorical imperative. Come up with your own maxim not described in the text and test it against this formulation of the categorical imperative. Would your maxim be permissible or impermissible according to Kant?