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Essays 151 - 180
In ten pages this paper considers the right to bear arms in America in a discussion of community with a comparison of the philosop...
Challenge, then, for Kant, would come from the inherent process that man experiences as he moves away from nature and into a socie...
In five pages the issue of HIV disclosure is examined from the perspective of medical ethics in a consideration of the perspective...
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...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
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...
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...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...
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...
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...
significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...
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...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...
sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...