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theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
study, many infants actually died as a result because the women could not properly store the man-made food. Here, the moral dile...
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...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...
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 ...
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...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
A 6 page research paper that discusses the political positions of various authors from the ancient world. The writer asserts that ...
one harmonize the concept of a loving, gracious God with a God who is righteous and unforgiving" (Walvoord 11). Walvoord admits th...
spiritual enlightenment. The central message of Buddhism is that all creatures, one of great intelligence, and even those that w...
"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...
virtue by the wayside. Virtuous men and women are well behaved. Aristotle makes a good point. For this theorist, virtue is learned...
of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...
tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...
audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...
Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
"actions are morally right in virtue of their motives, which must derive more from duty than from inclination" (Kemerling, 2002) -...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...
is counterfeit and he gets into trouble for using the cash. He gives it away freely and frequently and makes himself appear quite ...
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
Ulman, 2005, PG). In order to construct a successful argument for a particular position, therefore, one has to first amass th...