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taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

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

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

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

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

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...

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...

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...

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