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knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...
the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
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 ...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
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...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
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...
The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
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...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...