YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Goodness According to Immanuel Kant
Essays 181 - 210
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...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...
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...
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, ...
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...
significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
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...
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...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
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...
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...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
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...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...
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...
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
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...