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"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

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...

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

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...

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...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

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...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

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...

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...