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and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

other ends. Such an end might already exist, or might be something which the actor strives to bring about by his actions. In 4:428...

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

lives. If a knife is to someones throat, should he or she lie in order to save his or her life? Many people would say yes, but to ...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

actually benefited society. This is no longer true. in todays society, corporations use these and other precepts to pass on their ...

linger about fairness and equality, that one has to assume that to some extent, mans nature is related to this concept. First, Ho...

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

the adult world of constraints into an exciting world of fun in the sun, the children come up against the usual banes of social ex...

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

he is good and honest, the covenant will be kept. If not, then it is more likely than not that it will be broken. Hobbes (1651) ...

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

Man has a natural propensity for conflict and human beings form societies not out of their desire for complicit, but out of a fear...