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Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...
the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...
particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
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...
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 ...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...
here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...