Essays 391 - 420
The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...
our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...
state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...
life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...
also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...