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Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and the Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...

Lying and the Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

In five pages an evaluation of the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant, which contends that there is never an ethical justific...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

Challenge, then, for Kant, would come from the inherent process that man experiences as he moves away from nature and into a socie...

Ford Pinto Case and the Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

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

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and How It is Flawed

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 ...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and the Ford Motor Company's Pinto

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

Categorical Ethical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and its Restructuring by Hans Jonas

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

Categorical Imperative and Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper considers 3 formulations regarding a single categorical imperative as presented in this philosophical tre...

Lying Viewed Through Kant's Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...

Kant’s Categorical Imperative

right. Kant felt that right actions had moral value in of themselves, not simply because of their consequences. Therefore, he wrot...

Criminal Justice and Kant's Categorical Imperative

This essay discusses Kant's categorical imperative as illustrated by applications evident in criminal justice and law enforcement....

Kant, the Categorical Imperative and the Invasion of Iraq

everyone else acting in the same way" (The categorical imperative). The question then becomes, do we want the law of pre-emptive...

Response to Philippa Foot

This 3 page paper is a response to Philippa Foot’s critique of Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative. ...

Kantian Ethics and a World Hunger Evaluation

an emotional argument such as that, it is not sufficient to prompt a true, logical conclusion regarding the problem of world hunge...

Immanuel Kant and Universality's Significance

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...

A Philosophical Approach to Animal Rights

In five pages the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and utilitarian philosophy of John Stuart Mill are contrasted with the c...

A Philosophy Basic Overview

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

Goodness According to Immanuel Kant

In five pages summum bonum and categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant are examined in order to determine his philosophy regarding...

Justice According to Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Plato

In seven pages this paper discusses the many components and perspectives on justice utilizing the categorical imperative of Immanu...

Knowledge Theories Empiricism and Rationalism

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant's Philosophies

will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...

Military Duty and Kantian Ethics

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

Ethical Validity of Conscription

Halberstadts involvement with the military didnt end after Vietnam. Indeed, he has moved in and out of the military circle for de...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

Morals and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper discusses morality in a consideration of Immanuel Kant's theories in an examination of the universal free...

Philosophy and Morality

a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...

Kantian Ethics and Reason

lying promise is ethical, even if it might save the life of a child. Smythe (1998) writes: "As Kant had indicated, we have a duty...

Kantian Concepts of Morality

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

Immanuel Kant's Theories on Ethics

ethics, or those which are based on moral obligation and duty. Kant argued that "the moral status of an action is not determined b...