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certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

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...

ruled by others, even those who do not have their best interests at heart (Kant, 1970). Essentially, he contends that this situat...

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

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...

to be stopped by the police following a fight then it is easier to make the decision to report him, rather than if the explanation...

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 ...

or requesting aid; making prayers; or making "a purely factual assertion" (p. 2). Further, "Laws of nature are sometimes formulat...

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

In arguing with the Empiricists, Kant noted that the mind is necessary in order to quantify experience; that the mind isnt a blank...

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...