Simon is considering whether to illegally stream the latest Star…

Simon is considering whether to illegally stream the latest Star…

-Simon is considering whether to illegally stream the latest

Star Wars movie which will make him and his five friends very happy. He knows nobody will find out and that he can easily get away with it. He won’t really be harming anyone else since his illegal download is a drop in the bucket. So he goes ahead and does it. Apply Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative to Simon’s choice. Would it be right or wrong? Why? What would an Act Utilitarian say about his choice and what would be the reasoning? What would a rule utilitarian think, and why?

-Explain Gilbert Ryle’s notion of a Category Mistake and how language dupes us into thinking the mind is some mysterious immaterial thing.