Assignment guidelines
Write a critical response to the prompt below. Critical responses should be at least four paragraphs but no longer than five. As a rule of thumb, each paragraph should be between one hundred and fifty to two hundred words.
In Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant asks, “When I am in a tight spot, may I not make a promise with the intention of not keeping it?” (p. 18-19). Explain why, according to Kant, a lying promise is incompatible with the Categorical Imperative (Formula of the Universal Law