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For Kant, one’s motive is  _______ in determining whether an act was ethical.

An “act consequentialist”:

Immanuel Kant believed that we should rely upon society, government, and religious leaders to guide us to what our moral decisions should be.

A spring-loaded dart gun is used to shoot a dart straight up into the air, and the dart reaches a maximum height of 24 meters above its point of release. The same dart is shot up a second time from the same gun, but this time the spring is compressed only half as far (compared to the first shot). How far up does the dart go this time? (Neglect friction and assume the spring is ideal and massless.)

A traveler pulls on a suitcase strap at an angle 36° above the horizontal. If 825 J of work are done by the strap while moving the suitcase a horizontal distance of 12 m, what is the tension in the strap? 

Which of the following proposed an ethical theory that could be expressed as follows: “Act only according to the maxim by which you can at the same time believe that it should become a universal law”?

Immanuel Kant focused on the outcome of an act, not on whether it was considered moral or immoral.

According to the Watching Assignments, Utilitarianism constitutes the sum of Value Theory and the Theory of Right Action.

According to the Watching Assignments, Kant believed that free will was not consistent with moral laws.

Consider this statement: “If you want good grades, you will have to study hard.”  This is an example of  _____.