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Another name for "pure" in Kant's philosophy

What is a priori?

100

Subjective principle of volition

What is a maxim?

100

Mill's claimed progenitor in the theorizing of utilitarianism.

Who is Socrates?

100

The feature of Mill's utilitarianism which makes it altruistic.

What is impartiality in GHP?

100
Cicero's foundation for duty.

What is virtue?

200

Kant's stated purpose in Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals.

What is the establishment of the supreme principle of morality?

200

Definition of law

What is "an objective principle of volition"?

200

Another name for the principle of utility

What is "Greatest Happiness Principle"?

200

The kinds of external sanctions.

What are reward and/or punishments from fellow men or from God?

200

Plato's notion of justice (at least, according to the Republic)

What is "minding one's own business"?

300

The best means, according to Kant, for nature to direct something toward happiness.

What is instinct?

300

The necessity for acting out of respect for the law

What is duty?

300

The unbridled pursuit of pleasure

What is hedonism?
300

Internal sanction

What is the feeling of duty?

300

Aristotle's definition of a soul

What is "the first grade of actuality in a natural, organized body"?

400

The purpose of reason.

What is the production of a will good in itself?

400

The positive definition of freedom

What is self-legislation (autonomy)?

400
The distinction between Mill's utilitarianism and hedonism.

What is the difference in kind, and not just in degree, between pleasures?

400

The difference between natural feeling of retaliation and a properly moral sentiment.

What is social sympathy (feeling of unity with mankind)?

400

Aquinas's threefold division of the speculative sciences.

What are physics, mathematics, and metaphysics?

500

The first formulation of the categorical imperative.

What is "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law"?

500

The second formulation of the categorical imperative.

What is "So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only"?

500

The chief features of expediency, according to Mill

What are (1) preference for oneself and (2) preference for the short-term?

500

Mill's notion of intention

What is the willing of a certain outcome?

500

The three parts of the classical schema for morality.

What are (1) man-as-he-is-now, (2) man-as-he-could-be-if-he-were-to-realize-his-telos, and (3) what man ought to do?