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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...

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

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

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...

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 ...

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...

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

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

there are other outside influences. In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can aff...

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

"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...

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...

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

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...

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

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...

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...