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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...
In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...
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...
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...
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...
based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...
delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...
the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
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 ...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
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...
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...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
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...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
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...
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...