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In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...

knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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