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In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

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

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...

In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...

after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

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 ...

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

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...

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

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 ...

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...

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...