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Essays 751 - 780
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
or requesting aid; making prayers; or making "a purely factual assertion" (p. 2). Further, "Laws of nature are sometimes formulat...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
he could use public transportation to visit his parents nearby town. In short, the argument that Mr. Paul depends on his dr...
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...
the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...
in developing nations is broad; the specific interest of a specific NGO depends on the organizations business and its goals for th...
from Jodie to Mary. The venous return passes from Mary to Jodie through a united inferior vena cava and other venous channels in t...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...
discussion. It is a way to present his theory on justice and what is right and wrong. Rawls view is basically that any rational h...
the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...
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, ...
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...
is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
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 ...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...
rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...
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 that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
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...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...