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acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

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...

Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as he is, refuses to trade in. June, his wife, whose sense of self-worth is...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

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...

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

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 ...

years because he seems to care a bit for the father of Henry, John of Gaunt. In these respects one can see that Richard II may wel...

people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

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 eight pages this research paper on US democracy includes the connection between pragmatism and virtue, the differences and simi...

The caricature representation of Richard in both film and play is discussed in ten pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliograp...

In five pages this paper examines the narrative that chronicles the amazing life of onetime slave and feminist activist Sojourner ...

accept. According to Honderich (1995), what has already been said is true in that "whether what is said about the world is true s...

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this movement, they are turned against their families, their grades fall and they drop out of school, and they "surrender" their w...

unfreezes and temperatures climb. Alaska appears to be on a direct and damaging collision course with time, inasmuch as its entir...

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...

in the continuing fight for womens rights. With the very first line, Truth exposes her defiance toward the systems rules, which, ...

People play devils advocate all the time, negating valid premises. This is how high priced attorneys win impossible cases and it i...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...