homework #8 (kantian ethics)

this homework is based on our textbook, chapter 6,

and my two lectures: on this lecture and this lecture.

1. Why is keeping a promise a duty? In your defense, bring to bear Kant's first formulation. 

2. Do you have duties to yourself? Explain why.   

3. What does it mean to say that an action is universal and reversible? 

4. What's Kant's idea of respect? Bring an example from your own life to apply this idea.

5. Explain the difference between treating a person "as a mean to," and "merely as a mean to and end"?

6. How do you apply the second principle to yourself? Explain.

Questions stressed in yellow require at least 30 words.