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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...

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

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...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

the year of 1816 that Mary began to write her infamous novel Frankenstein. "She took a challenge, set by Lord Byron, to write a gh...

seems to be unable to really remain and listen to the lonely song, stating, "in truth I couldnt wait to see if another would come ...

perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...

In 7 pages these two creations are compared in terms of the intentions of their creators and the reactions they inspired with God ...

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

In five pages this paper examines the concept of 'political moralist' and how it does not apply to Kant's philosophical ideas rega...

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

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

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

In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

In six pages this research paper defines morality within the context of Kant's philosophy and also considers supreme morality's va...

In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

rA 5 page review of the book by Paul K Moser. Traditional philosophic constructs of knowledge is contrasted with contemporary con...

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...