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

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

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

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

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

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

In 5 pages this paper examines the universal morality philosophy of Immanuel Kant and how it can be applied to daily life. One sou...

In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

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

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

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

closest to as it is hard to be objective in such a circumstance. State the specific circumstances involved with the case. To prov...

would come about as a natural consequence of romanticism ("Romanticism," 2005). For example, romantic music inspired nationalist t...

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

turn on their weaker subjects, so it was necessary to limit their power.5 There were two ways to do this: first, by recognizing t...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...

And Nietzsche might agree. After all, if morality is a fluke, then everything is okay. Of course, in other writings, Nietzsche di...

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself" ...

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

He did not believe in intervention unless necessary and in that way, there is a similarity. Mills defense of social liberty, and...

in which genetic information will be used by insurance companies and employers in order to discriminate. It is discrimination that...

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...

the greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

causes them to prefer intellectual pleasures over sensual ones. He continues in his thinking to assume that the principle of utili...