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youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

In 5 pages this paper examines the universal morality philosophy of Immanuel Kant and how it can be applied to daily life. One sou...

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

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

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

closest to as it is hard to be objective in such a circumstance. State the specific circumstances involved with the case. To prov...

would come about as a natural consequence of romanticism ("Romanticism," 2005). For example, romantic music inspired nationalist t...

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

turn on their weaker subjects, so it was necessary to limit their power.5 There were two ways to do this: first, by recognizing t...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...

And Nietzsche might agree. After all, if morality is a fluke, then everything is okay. Of course, in other writings, Nietzsche di...

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

line of work, or even work at all. The government does demand allegiance and can draft members of the society if a war thus demand...

reasons why Mill make this assertion at the close of his argument lie within the work itself. In chapter III, Mill puts worth two ...

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...