Explain the terms of this formulation and why it is an appropriate rule for determining the  morality of an action; and use it to evaluate whether telling a lie is morally justifiable. 

1. Mill argues in chapter 2 of Utilitarianism that the greatest happiness principle does not involve a  denigration of humanity; that utilitarianism is importantly different from selfish egoism; and that  whether an action is moral or not does not have to do with the agent’s motives.

2. What is the categorical imperative? Choose one of the two following formulations of the  categorical imperative that Kant provides in the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: a. “Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law” (Kant, Grounding, 30).

b. “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person  of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means” (Kant,  Grounding, 36).

Explain the terms of this formulation and why it is an appropriate rule for determining the  morality of an action; and use it to evaluate whether telling a lie is morally justifiable.