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Essays 211 - 240
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...
always considered as an end in himself" (35). In other words, this man would ultimately be persuaded not to take his own life by ...
In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....
In six pages this research paper defines morality within the context of Kant's philosophy and also considers supreme morality's va...
In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...
In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...
In five pages this paper examines the concept of 'political moralist' and how it does not apply to Kant's philosophical ideas rega...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...
In six pages 7 student posed questions regarding how these philosophers interpret morality and ethics are answered. Four sources ...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...
In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...
de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...
In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...
are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...