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knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

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

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

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

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