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rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

In arguing with the Empiricists, Kant noted that the mind is necessary in order to quantify experience; that the mind isnt a blank...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...

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...

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

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...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

to their marriage, but they lust in their hearts. Some might fault such individuals anyway, because they are acting only due to th...

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

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...