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as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

the curtailment of hate speech would be beneficial to such a goal. And indeed, such a solution sounds simple enough : Point an ac...

always considered as an end in himself" (35). In other words, this man would ultimately be persuaded not to take his own life by ...

way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

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...

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

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...

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

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

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 ...

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

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

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...

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

country in terms of routine items such as traffic and violent crime and international relations. It would create a strong national...

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...