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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...
non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...
humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...
In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...
human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...
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...
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...
freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
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...
delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
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...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...