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because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

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 ...

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

other ends. Such an end might already exist, or might be something which the actor strives to bring about by his actions. In 4:428...

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

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

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

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

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

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 sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...

the immortal soul so that man can survive (PG). The mortal and the immortal soul were each housed in different areas in the body (...

In five pages the way in which Aristotle perceived the golden mean as described in Politics is discussed and also compared with Th...

In five pages the 2 contradictory views of Socrates that are featured in Plato's Apology are discussed in an analysis of what thes...

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

In five pages this paper analyzes how the theme of death and John Donne's depression regarding death are reflected in 2 of his 'Ho...

In four pages this paper examines how The Republic presents Plato's views regarding liberty and the perfect state. There are no o...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Plato's ideas regarding love with the views of Socrates and Aristophanes as expres...