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Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

Transcendental Unity

This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...

Goodness and Philosophy

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

Liberty Restrictions and Employees' Out of Work Activities

costs of replacing the employee should the need arise. This can be examined not only in terms of modern morals and the way it may ...

Questions Regarding Personal Ethics

a man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). "Work" is not always something that returns money as a reward or p...

Comparative Analysis of Hegel and Kant

In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...

Deontology and Utilitarianism

direct encounter with value occurs in the experience of pleasure. Delight or felt satisfaction was, according to his official vie...

Bertrand Russell and 'A Priori Knowledge'

In one page this paper explains Russell's The Problems of Philosophy in which he discusses how a priori knowledge exists and emplo...

Three Questions of Philosophy

This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...

Philosophy of an Enlightened Age

In five pages an examination of spiritual and religious enlightenment past and present is considered in a discussion of Foucault's...

Modern Movement Influence Upon Architects and Fashion

In fifteen pages Le Corbusier's modern architecture movement is examined in terms of how it links architecture and fashion in acco...

Doing Good and Medical Ethics

Oath. This was traditionally taken by all graduating doctors, but many institutions do not insist on it toady. The original oath h...

Health Care and an Application of Distributive Justice

Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...

Western Concepts on Imagination and Its Origins

of poetry, since it is the expression of imagination that allows for emotional comprehension. Introduction Imagination i...

Hume, Kant, and Descartes' Teleological, Ontological, and Cosmological Arguments and God's Existence Criticisms

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

An Ethical Argument on the Abortion Issue

that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...

The U.S. Decision to Invade Iraq in 2003, Justified with References to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Nagel and the Principles of Utilitarianism

rule-utilitarianism. Act-utilitarianism "supposes that each particular action should be evaluated solely by references to its own ...

Everyday Ethics

not lead to spite. Question 2 Felicia Ackerman talks about politeness and the concept of convention and non conventional politen...

Ethics of the Ford Pinto

design engineers did not intend for the Pinto to be dangerous in rear-end collisions, so the Kantian perspective essentially would...

Ethics of the Ford Pinto

deaths resulting from the Pintos faulty design because no one at Ford could know the future. Certainly design engineers did not i...

Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory

In five pages questions pertaining to Immanuel Wallerstein's world system theory are answered. Seven sources are cited in the bib...

Historical Context Regarding Philosophy's Intent

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

Is It Immoral To Believe A Claim Without Evidence?

Of all the claims that lack evidence, none are as morally immense or elusive as whether or not God exists. Supporters contend the...

Reaction to the Reading: A Genealogical Analysis of the Cognitive Content of Morality

night and gives the field its reputation for obscurity. Reaction to the meaning of the text: Having said all that, what does the ...

"Mankind" and "Everyman"

play is Everyman, who obviously stands for everyone in the audience. This is play designed to teach a lesson, and the lesson is si...

Does Motive Matter?

just as problematic when tied to an ordinary citizen as it is for a police officer, the government sees that the motive is differe...

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

the morality, or immorality, of his actions. He does, of course seem to realize that much of what he lost, long ago, was lost when...

Physician Assisted Suicide (A Literature Review)

though he had a good chance of full recovery. This suggests that patients be allowed to terminate their lives if they are in sever...

"Flatliners": Do the Ends Justify the Means?

of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...