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Essays 241 - 270
In five pages this paper examines Kant's perspective on moral worth and duty. One source is cited in the bibliography....
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...
first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...
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...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
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...
become complex, as the firm has a duty to the shareholders to undertake business to create profit, potential losses and lost oppor...
"actions are morally right in virtue of their motives, which must derive more from duty than from inclination" (Kemerling, 2002) -...
dungeon and as such is nothing more than a simple fun work (The Book of Good Love of Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita, 2007). There ar...
himself reflects only Goods first step in the Model. He comes to America and gets a bad job that is back-breaking for low wages an...
also useful for the health care plans that are bidding on the business - it lets them know who the competition is, and where they ...
This essay discusses good and bad policies of the Andrew Jackson administration, and argues that the good are not enough to negate...
axis and price on the Y axis (Nellis and Parker, 2006). The demand line moves in the opposite direction; a downward slope, this sh...
1 using the SITC categories. All figures given are in $ millions unless otherwise stated. Figure 1 Imports and Exports of chemica...
determined that it was in our national best interest that we invade Iraq, as a means of securing the safety of all Americans. How...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the stories Good Country People and A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor. This ...
should treat other people as ends in themselves rather than as means to an end, and that one should act in such a manner that cons...
a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
it mean for a person to be functioning well-or in this case, to be functioning to his highest capability? Its more than acquiring...
the class they come from. The nautre is open and forgiving, they have short attention spans and any negative emotions are likely t...