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Essays 121 - 150
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...
based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
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...
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...
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...
sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...
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, ...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
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...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...
rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
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...
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 ...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...