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In thirty five pages various philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant are incorporated into an ...

In five pages the social role of justice is evaluated by employing the philosophical views of Plato and Immanuel Kant. Four sourc...

In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...

that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...

In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...

Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

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

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...

In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...

In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...