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from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

gained from experience as well as the collection of information, the experience may be the companies own experience, or that of ot...

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...

can be used by the company and its employees. Molnlycke Health Care, established in 1998 as the result of a merger between the c...

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

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

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

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