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Military Duty and Kantian Ethics

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

Information Technology Responsibilities and Professional Ethics

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

Lying and Infidelity

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

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

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

Philosophers on Moral Theory

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

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

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

Ethics From Teleological and Deontological Philosophical Perspectives

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

Political Ideologies of East and West Compared

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

The Social Contract and Autonomy

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

Corporations and Self Limiting of Size

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

Egoism and Deontology

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

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

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

A Capital Punishment Analysis

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

Knowledge Theories Empiricism and Rationalism

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics

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

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

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

Morality According to Kant and Mill

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

Needs of Society and Individualism

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

Thomas Youk's Assisted Suicide Aired on Television

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

Ethics and Advertising

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

World Knowledge and the Mind

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

Medical Ethics and Disclosure of HIV

In five pages the issue of HIV disclosure is examined from the perspective of medical ethics in a consideration of the perspective...

Concepts of Saint Thomas Aquinas

has likely already noted that . Bracken (1996) suggests that what is missing from Aquinass argument is a distinction between per...

Community and the Possession of Private Arms

In ten pages this paper considers the right to bear arms in America in a discussion of community with a comparison of the philosop...

A Philosophy Basic Overview

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

Culture, Ethics, and the Issues of Divorce and Adultery

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Caucasian and Mexican American cultural views regarding adultery and divorce and t...

Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Explained by Philosophy and Science

mans attention. After running in fear from Jezebel, the Lord attracted Elijahs attention by using an earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11,...

Lying Viewed Through Kant's Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...

A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

to his awakening and allowed him to become a critical philosopher, "synthesizing the rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of ...

Moral Permissibility of an Educator Raising the Grade of a Student

In five pages the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Rawls are applied to a consideration of whether or not it is ethically ac...