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in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

ethics, or those which are based on moral obligation and duty. Kant argued that "the moral status of an action is not determined b...

In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...

sometimes a culturally driven process. It is the product of the morals and ethics of the entities involved on both sides of the s...

In a paper consisting of 8 pages these 3 theorists and their concepts of freedom are contrasted and compared with de Tocqueville's...

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

for diseases. The workers are constantly fatigued from the long hours, some rooms are too hot, others too cold, some dripping with...

ritual in pagan religions for the purpose of purifying oneself (Barnes 2000). Although the term baptism is not found in the Old ...

the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

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...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...