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never having existed at all (Kant). He also points out that we have "nothing before us that could now teach us anything about our ...

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

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

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

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

degrading 5. Throughout history we have evidence of right versus wrong; of morality versus immorality 6. In this way, it...

nature of human thought. Kants stance is extremely rational. However, some of his maxims prove to be unworkable in regards to ce...

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...

In three pages these concepts are defined and then the concept of pleasure is examined through an application of Immanuel Kant's c...

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

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

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

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

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

a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

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

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

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

freedom of speech as well as to be able to use reason publicly in all matters without fear of retribution, is very important. It i...

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

is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

lying promise is ethical, even if it might save the life of a child. Smythe (1998) writes: "As Kant had indicated, we have a duty...

As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reaso...

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

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...