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

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...

to their marriage, but they lust in their hearts. Some might fault such individuals anyway, because they are acting only due to th...

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...