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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...

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

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

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...

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

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

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

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

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

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

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...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

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

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...

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

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