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In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...

Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...

that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...

In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

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...

think carefully about hard choices, they turn out to be very hard indeed." He focuses on black/white relations because he is most ...

most important, that of the therapist is also vital. The qualities necessary in a good therapist include such things as caring, ac...

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

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...

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...

In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...

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...

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

This paper presents an overall description of the homepage of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The web site is evalu...

cases, the burglar is (or presents herself) as someone who is so under the influence of her friends that she literally has no choi...

concept of independence and freedom, both needed for the child to develop discipline (self-discipline) and obedience. As Conroy a...

owners rationalized the enslavement of Africans based on the perception that they were heathen, rather than on differences in skin...

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 ...

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

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...

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...