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to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
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...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
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...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
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 ...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...
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...
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...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...