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other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
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...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
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 ...
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...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
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...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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...
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...
actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...
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...