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Essays 211 - 240
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...
exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...
IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...
perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...
In five pages this paper examines Kant's perspective on moral worth and duty. One source is cited in the bibliography....
moral philosophy. It is important to understand that Kant makes a clear distinction between perceiving and thinking, which he cre...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
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 contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...
In six pages 7 student posed questions regarding how these philosophers interpret morality and ethics are answered. Four sources ...
In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...
In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...
In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...
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 ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...
de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...
In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...