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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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

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 ...

The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...

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

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

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...

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

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

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...

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

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

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

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

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

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

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

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...

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

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