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reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
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 ...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
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...
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...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...
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...
sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...
In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...
the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...
In five pages this report examines how Kant offered philosophical distinctions between right or the responsibilities of justice an...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...