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In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

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

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

and we can start to see the representation of Judaism in Kafkas work, Scholem stated that "Although unaware of it himself, [Kafkas...

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 that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

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

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...

Hence, it is not unexpected that philosophers throughout the ages have also had different thoughts on freedom. While many people,...

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...

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

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

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...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

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

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

was noted that the tenant did not comply with the original terms of the contract in that he was expected to notify the landlord th...

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 ...

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

upon her every which way she may turn, reminding her that because she is of the female gender and not of the most prominent of soc...

notice. That he soared toward the sun on wings made of wax only to have them melt, plummet him into the sea and ultimately drown ...

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

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

that neither knowledge nor life are two evils to be chosen between, but that they are both good. Why would God care to call either...

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...

to be stopped by the police following a fight then it is easier to make the decision to report him, rather than if the explanation...

to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!" (Gilman). Because her...

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

short stories many in which he dealt with the political and social issues associated with Indian independence, many in which he pr...