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Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...
In five pages an evaluation of the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant, which contends that there is never an ethical justific...
Challenge, then, for Kant, would come from the inherent process that man experiences as he moves away from nature and into a socie...
In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...
In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...
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 ...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...
right. Kant felt that right actions had moral value in of themselves, not simply because of their consequences. Therefore, he wrot...
This essay discusses Kant's categorical imperative as illustrated by applications evident in criminal justice and law enforcement....
This 3 page paper is a response to Philippa Foot’s critique of Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative. ...
an emotional argument such as that, it is not sufficient to prompt a true, logical conclusion regarding the problem of world hunge...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...
lying promise is ethical, even if it might save the life of a child. Smythe (1998) writes: "As Kant had indicated, we have a duty...
a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...
considered moral to steal or lie. Anti-abortion activists have taken this a step further, considering their murdering of abortion ...
one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...
ethics, or those which are based on moral obligation and duty. Kant argued that "the moral status of an action is not determined b...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
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...
The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...
Halberstadts involvement with the military didnt end after Vietnam. Indeed, he has moved in and out of the military circle for de...
that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...
a man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). "Work" is not always something that returns money as a reward or p...
In five pages this paper discusses morality in a consideration of Immanuel Kant's theories in an examination of the universal free...
In seventeen pages the collapses of several structural buildings in Asia are discussed in a consideration of design ethics and com...
there are other outside influences. In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can aff...
everyone else acting in the same way" (The categorical imperative). The question then becomes, do we want the law of pre-emptive...
In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...