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nature of human thought. Kants stance is extremely rational. However, some of his maxims prove to be unworkable in regards to ce...

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...

treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...

this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...

speaks of the position of women in society, elements of a womans life that can often lead to a position where she is seen as littl...

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

She further notes, for example, how "The sensualist, indeed, has been the most dangerous of tyrants, and women have been duped by ...

that their greater goal on this earth was to remain dedicated to God in everything they did. Winthrop instructs his listeners to ...

was limited in size in capitalist nations and the one from which most members had hope of escape were they able to work for their ...

In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...

will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...

her day and age, women were of two types, generally speaking: bad and good. The good were set upon pedestals and were seen as the ...

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of Immanuel Kant with John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. There ...

In six pages this paper examines how the morality theories of these philosophers can be practically applied. Two sources are cite...

In six pages this paper discusses the Enlightenment of the 19th century in terms of how Jefferson, Paine, Smith, Rousseau, and Loc...

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

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 five pages this paper discusses conservative and liberal thinking of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as each is represe...

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

In five pages this paper examines the Romantic Age and considers the writings of female authors Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe...

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

university in 1751 as a professor of logic. The lectures he gave covered subjects such as ethics and jurisprudence as well as the ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how liberty is reflected in The Subjection of Women and On Liberty by John Stuart ...

differences. Some have suggested that Smith, whose real name is George Goodman, has a more cynical view of society. Goodman seems ...

and that and other factors were wreaking havoc on the national economy. It was the position of John Maynard Keynes that gov...

actually benefited society. This is no longer true. in todays society, corporations use these and other precepts to pass on their ...