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de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

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...

consider the fact that when one stretches his ethical judgment and attempts to justify an immoral act, it can be argued that there...

In seven pages whether or not moral claims can be justified is examined philosophically with an integration of views from Foucault...

In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...

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 ...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

"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...

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

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

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

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...

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...