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Immanuel Kant and Martin Luther King Jr.

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

German Philosophy: Family, Society and Government

family, and how the state gets into the picture. II. German Political Theory When it comes to German political theory, there...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Socrates to John Dewey on Education

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...

Sin and Free Will as Viewed by Jean Paul Sartre

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

Apperception Principle of Immanuel Kant

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

Great Philosophers on Freedom

Hence, it is not unexpected that philosophers throughout the ages have also had different thoughts on freedom. While many people,...

Philosophy and Whether to Inform or Keep Mum

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...

Infant Formula Marketing by Nestle and Morality

study, many infants actually died as a result because the women could not properly store the man-made food. Here, the moral dile...

Overview of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant on Killing and Morals

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

Ethics and the Practice of Organ Trafficking

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

Kantian Concepts of Morality

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

What is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant

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

Philosophy, Ethics, and 'Doing the Right Thing'

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and How It is Flawed

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 ...

Responsibility According to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

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

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

3 Classical Philosophies and Animal Rights

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

Humanity Formula of Immanuel Kant

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...

Case Study on Making Ethical Decisions

hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

Military Duty and Kantian Ethics

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

Social Contributions of Immanuel Kant

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

Global Justice and Cosmopolitanism

2001). Therefore, there can be a favorable view of geophysical boundaries or divisions, attorney to the extent that they will prov...

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...

Utilities Company in Southern California

the backcountry, where the weather gets very dry and then, pass on any of their costs to customers instead of holding the company ...

Elizabeth Costello's Views on Animal Rights

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...