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

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...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

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...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

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

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...

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

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

her, for he is consumed with desire and love despite his weaknesses and his inadequacies. He will, in essence, do anything for the...

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...

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...