SUS1501 Assignment 2 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 1 2025 - DUE March 2025.

Well-structured SUS1501 Assignment 2 (ANSWERS) Semester 1 2025 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED. (DETAILED ANSWERS - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED!)... 1. BACKGROUND FACTS In assignment 1, one of the questions was: “In the first 6 months of 2024, the six wealthiest men in South Africa gained on average R77 million per day each.” My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by: a. Good for them – they worked hard to earn this. b. The only problem I have with this is that it wasn’t me earning R77 million a day. c. No problem with this. I'm sure all of these billionaires donate huge amounts to charities d. I think that it is morally wrong for anyone to earn that much money. e. I think that active steps should be taken to correct such immoral earnings.” Do you remember which option you chose? In this assignment we are going to zoom in on option “a” specifically: “Good for them – they worked hard to earn this”. What this option is basically saying is, that the earnings of these billionaires are completely reasonable and justifiable? What we want you to do in this assignment is to examine this option (i.e. someone, perhaps even you, taking R 77 million a day for 6 months) from the perspective of Kant’s formula of universal law version of the categorical imperative. 2. EVALUATE USING KANT'S CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE (We've done the first two stages for you) 1. State your proposed act as a maxim: