How Might Kant Explain How We Distinguish Between Perfect Duties

question 3

Multiple Choice

How might Kant explain how we distinguish between perfect duties and imperfect duties?

• A) No one has a duty to perfection.
• B) Ought implies can.
• C) Perfect duties are required by the moral law; imperfect duties are purely supererogatory.
• D) An imperfect duty is one in which the maxim as universal law could be conceived without contradiction, but which we could never rationally will.

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