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Essays 241 - 270
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...
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 ...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...
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...
their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...
to their marriage, but they lust in their hearts. Some might fault such individuals anyway, because they are acting only due to th...
all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...
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...
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...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...
exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...
perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...
It is a lie that has no real consequences and is really not even thought out. It is merely a response, normally to a question perh...
stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...
lies on his or her resume, and the employer finds out, the employer will feel wronged. Usually, it ends in the employees dismissal...
of the seller is supposed to represent the seller, and not act in the best interests of all parties. The buyers agent similarly is...
of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...
did not intend to lay off people but that is not what employees report on blogs (Goldstein, 2009). One employee in Philadelphia re...
Ann Coulter The fact that Franken reiterates the theme of Ann Coulter emphasizes the fact that he does not like her. As if someo...