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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

Halberstadts involvement with the military didnt end after Vietnam. Indeed, he has moved in and out of the military circle for de...

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

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

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

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...

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...

first place and eschewing the monetary aspect so often clouding ones ethical perspective. "Looking back now on all previous attem...

area where the mines were laid" (14). Only the most determined and profit-oriented marketer or the one with no sense of moral scru...

2010 has been a general year of recovery. The general global economic performance of 2010 is discussed, considering the overall gr...

attracting attention and exhibitions from all across the globe, showcasing the latest cultural and technological contributions to ...

The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...

and rationalize any decisions humans have made for their own preservation. While Aristotle argued that the virtues were faith, hop...

of exhibits, and millions of visitors would produce very different conclusions" (Rose, 1996). As such many people ask "How was the...

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...