Essays 211 - 240
In five pages this report examines how Kant offered philosophical distinctions between right or the responsibilities of justice an...
moral philosophy. It is important to understand that Kant makes a clear distinction between perceiving and thinking, which he cre...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...
In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...
In five pages this paper examines the concept of 'political moralist' and how it does not apply to Kant's philosophical ideas rega...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...
In six pages 7 student posed questions regarding how these philosophers interpret morality and ethics are answered. Four sources ...
ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...
first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...
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...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
"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...
for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...