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to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
This 8 page paper responds to the question of whether a utilitarian approach to moral reasoning is adequate. The writer first desc...
In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
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 non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...
is the same condition that essentially puts them in an ethical position to make this choice. The integration of Kants perspective...
to his awakening and allowed him to become a critical philosopher, "synthesizing the rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of ...
In five pages this paper examines the ethics of moral duty within the context of Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill and the politi...
In twelve pages the moral doctrines articulated by German philosopher Immanuel Kant are related to principles of Catholicism and U...
In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...
In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of Immanuel Kant with John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. There ...
irresistible force" and the result would be the establishment of the perfect civil constitution (Kant 45-46). Mans complicity in ...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the concept of government as represen...
critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...
through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...
This paper examines how in Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection, Immanuel Kant refutes Locke and Leibniz's theories in 5 pages....
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...
deem as acceptable. The concept of a rational society, in which the entire community is greatly influenced by principles its mem...
causes them to prefer intellectual pleasures over sensual ones. He continues in his thinking to assume that the principle of utili...
to do with whether or not the act increased or decreased overall happiness or whether they have utility. Acts are evaluated based ...
the expense of so many others? Indeed not, inasmuch as Sarahs mistake cannot be expected to cost one hundred innocent lives over ...
action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...
the greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...
complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...
up with perhaps the earliest fully developed system of utilitarianism, of which two prominent features are noteworthy ("Utilitari...
is one alternative in deriving a moral theory when considering a variety of philosophical models. Above all, it is simplistic. And...