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Deontological and Utilitarian Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplants

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

Mind, Time, and Space According to Critique on Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

Ethics and Making Decisions

to be stopped by the police following a fight then it is easier to make the decision to report him, rather than if the explanation...

Sexual Views of Immanuel Kant

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

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

Abortion and Morality

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

Human Cloning and Ethics

they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have bee...

US' Diminishing Democracy

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

Identity Issues

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

A Discussion of the Pronouncement I Think

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

Philosophical Perspectives

philosophical movement that appeared in Great Britain and suggested that all knowledge is experiential ("British," 2004). In other...

Knowledge and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

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

Robert Bellah's Enlightenment Concept

ruled by others, even those who do not have their best interests at heart (Kant, 1970). Essentially, he contends that this situat...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Voltaire and Kant

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

Morality and Religion According to Immanuel Kant

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

Immanuel Kant and Universality's Significance

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...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

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

Internet and Immorality

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

Reason, Good Will, and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

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

Homeless Assistance and Value Theory

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

Moral Considerations of Philippa Foot

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

Animal Rights

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

Ethics and Business

new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...

Utilitarianism and Morality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and the Ford Motor Company's Pinto

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

Value Theory of Immanuel Kant

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...

Richard Rorty and Immanuel Kant on Truth

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...

A Fictitious Discussion Between Hobbes and Kant

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

Philosophy Questions on John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In six pages 7 student posed questions regarding how these philosophers interpret morality and ethics are answered. Four sources ...

Kant, Locke, and Hobbes on the Social Contract and Nature

In 6 pages this paper examines how these philosophers regarded national law and the social contracts of man in a comparison and co...