Morality Depend on Motives Assignment | Online Assignment

hi, you do not need to site outside of the book. (site the book) please be as detailed as possible about how the chapter. explain: categorial imperative and the three dimensions to it with example. there are some example at pg: 109 and 110 which you can include and explain why they are moral or immoral in terms of kant. also, give your final thoughts. please do not plagiarize!!!! this is for my final. this is on chapter 24 and I have attached my book here

It is difficult to define philosophy with precision, and the attempt to do so forms
an interesting and important part of philosophy itself. Even though we should not
expect a pat definition, one way to define philosophy is to see what it is that philosophers
do.
Sometimes people use the word philosophy to refer in a very general way to a
person’s overall theory or outlook. For example, you might refer to someone’s attitude
toward doing business as a “business philosophy” or an
individual’s general outlook as that person’s “philosophy of
life.” “My philosophy is: honesty is the best policy,” a recent
advertisement said. Used in this way, the term philosophy is
a kind of synonym for outlook, or general viewpoint. You will sometimes find philosophers
using the term in this general sense, but more is implied by the word than that.
In the minds of others, being philosophical means having a passive attitude, taking
life as it comes. For these people, to be philosophical would be to accept things without
worrying about them. The ancient Stoics, believing that all things are ultimately rational
and orderly, argued for a somewhat similar view, but not all philosophers have adopted
a passive attitude that calls for a calm acceptance of the troubles of life.
If you look in the dictionary you will discover that the term philosophy is derived
from two Greek words that mean “the love of wisdom.” Philosophy, then, has
something to do with wisdom, but wisdom is also a term that a lot of people use
without knowing exactly what they mean by it. When the ancient Greek thinkers
referred to wisdom, they usually meant the knowledge of fundamental principles
and laws, an awareness of that which was basic and unchanging, as opposed to
those things that are transitory and changing. Ever since then, the term philosophy
has taken on something of this meaning and refers to attempts on the part of serious
thinkers to get at the basis of things. Not the superficial, trivial details, but the
underlying fundamentals. Not how many chemical elements there are, but what
matter is in general; not what differentiates Baroque from Romantic music, but
what art is in general. Unlike the social scientist who specializes in one small area,
such as the initiation rites of a South American tribe, philosophy traditionally looks
for principles underlying the whole of art, morality, religion, or reality. Putting
these meanings together results in a more satisfactory definition of philosophy—the
attempt to provide for oneself an outlook on life based on the discovery of broad,
fundamental principles.Because it is the nature of philosophy to take nothing for granted, philosophers
look at philosophy’s history as important for understanding both the successes
and failures of their predecessors. Although every generation asks its own questions,
there is a set of perennial issues that seems to recur: What ought we to do? (ethics);
What is reality? (metaphysics); How do we know anything? (epistemology); What is the
nature of correct reasoning? (logic); What is art? (esthetics). Some of the answers to these
questions given by past philosophers have led to dead ends. Other answers seem only
partial and incomplete. Some of the issues even elude the best efforts of past as well as
present philosophers to answer fully.
One way to study philosophy is to take a problem and see how it was handled by
past philosophers and how it is treated by contemporary ones. This could be called the
problems approach to philosophy. Another way to study philosophy is to see how each
era defined the important issues and responded to them. This is the historical approach.
The former is probably the best way for beginning philosophy students to get a grasp
of the nature of philosophical reasoning. Accordingly, in the following chapters we will
move about rather freely among different problems and examine responses to them from
various historical periods and geographical areas. Nonetheless, it is important to have
a general overview of how philosophy and its problems developed, beginning in ancient
Greece. We should also make clear that the following summary is that of Western philosophy.
In the last Part of this book we will look at Eastern modes of thought and discuss the
philosophically difficult and important question of whether the term philosophy should be
applied to them or whether that title is better reserved for the Western and European history
of certain ideas. For the moment, however, we will bracket this question and look at the
initial stirrings of that search which, Aristotle said, begins in wonder.
EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Western philosophy appeared in Greece in the sixth century B.C.E. as the first attempt
to provide a thoroughly secular and rational explanation of the natural world. People
have always tried to explain the world, of course, but they had previously framed their
theories in religious, mythological, and magical terms, leaning mainly on mystical and
magical grounds for support. The first group of philosophers, known as the pre-Socratic