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In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...

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...

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 six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...

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...

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...

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

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...

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

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

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...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

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...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

moral philosophy. It is important to understand that Kant makes a clear distinction between perceiving and thinking, which he cre...

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

In five pages this report examines how Kant offered philosophical distinctions between right or the responsibilities of justice an...