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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...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...
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...
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...
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...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
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, ...
In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...
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...
In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...
In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...
human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...
at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...