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In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...

In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...

In five pages this text on early nineteenth century Mexican life is discussed within the context of what it must have been like fo...

In five pages this text's portrayal of nineteenth century Mexican life is examined in a discussion of such topics as social class ...

In eight pages this research paper considers Nestle's practice of providing new mothers in third world nations with free infant fo...

In this paper consisting of seven pages balance in terms of community interest and self interest are explored as are potential con...

In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

In thirty five pages various philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant are incorporated into an ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

second of course has the flame smoking and Mary just beginning to show the signs of pregnancy. The third has Mary obviously pregna...

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...

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...

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

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 ...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

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...

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

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...