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Essays 181 - 210
points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...
non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...
humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...
In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...
sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...
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...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
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...
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...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
to their marriage, but they lust in their hearts. Some might fault such individuals anyway, because they are acting only due to th...
their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...
they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...
for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...
always considered as an end in himself" (35). In other words, this man would ultimately be persuaded not to take his own life by ...
In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...
In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...
In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...
In six pages this research paper defines morality within the context of Kant's philosophy and also considers supreme morality's va...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...