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Essays 211 - 240
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...
In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...
The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...
In nine pages this paper examines teaching philosophies in this overview that explores the relationship between philosophy and edu...
In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...
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...
In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....
always considered as an end in himself" (35). In other words, this man would ultimately be persuaded not to take his own life by ...
In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...
In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
In five pages this paper examines the concept of 'political moralist' and how it does not apply to Kant's philosophical ideas rega...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...
ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...
de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...
way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...
In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...