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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...

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

distinctive patterns, which include "a penchant for the obscure and improbable... accepting arguments pointing toward a conspiracy...

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

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

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

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

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...

This paper consists of five pages and applies the moral imperative of Immanuel Kant to the concept of sexuality. Four sources are...

knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

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...

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

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...

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 six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...