Questions And Topics We Can Help You To Answer

Hi, I need help with a quiz and the quiz consists of two short essay questions that ask you about the relationship between Kant’s ethics and the ethics implied by the director of Crimes and Misdemeanors, Woody Allen. (Hint: Pay special attention to the end of the film, as this gives a very big clue into what Allen thinks about ethics.)

This quiz concerns the relationship between the film, Crimes and Misdemeanors and the ethics of Immanuel Kant, as laid out in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Please answer the following questions as completely as possible after you have viewed the film.

The film link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW5y7RM4BuE&ab_channel=MovieRoom

Please read the attached file and watch the film in order to answer these two questions.

Make sure to answer these two questions individually (each question in a short essay)

Here are the questions:

Question 1: 

Nearly every Kantian duty was broken in the course of this film. Choose TWO such duties that were broken and do the following for each:

a. Explain which characters were in each situation
b. Explain Kant’s conception of this duty
c. Give Kant’s conception of the consequence of this duty
d. Explain the result of breaking this duty in the film

Question 2:

Like Kant, Woody Allen (the director of this film) wants to talk about morals in the absence of god, but the two come to opposite conclusions about how we ought to decide to act. What are these conclusions? Which do you side with? Why?