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The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...

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...

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...

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

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

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

support which varies from country to country and year to year. It is estimated that the results of the over-fishing in all the oce...

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...

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...

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....

after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

any experience they may have gained in this aspect. Rational beings need not confer with others in order to determine a true good ...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

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 ...

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

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...

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...

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...