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

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

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...

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...

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

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

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

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