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considered moral to steal or lie. Anti-abortion activists have taken this a step further, considering their murdering of abortion ...

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

an author chooses to present his arguments can have an impact on how easy (or difficult) it is to understand him. This paper consi...

This essay discusses Kant's categorical imperative as illustrated by applications evident in criminal justice and law enforcement....

life, white lies can protect people from hurt feelings. They can be used to motivate others to do good things. There are sometimes...

everyone else acting in the same way" (The categorical imperative). The question then becomes, do we want the law of pre-emptive...

there are other outside influences. In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can aff...

not believe that we should be without kings, but that their power should be limited, "That Kings are not superiors to, but adminis...

right. Kant felt that right actions had moral value in of themselves, not simply because of their consequences. Therefore, he wrot...

human comparable with Kants ideas? For Nietzsche, the noble human being strives to be alone, to stand up for himself, to take on r...

one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...

never having existed at all (Kant). He also points out that we have "nothing before us that could now teach us anything about our ...

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...

the primary location where policy is derived. There are myriad ethical considerations in the daily world of business, and each on...

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

have an otherwise broad range and potentiality; however, these aspects were often squelched by a need for systematic control. ...

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

belief, but at the "priests and their stupid or hypocritical instruments . . we shall think of them only to pity their victims and...

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

organization, direction and intervention strategies? First, realism is aligned with the suggestions that individual states are con...

every objection. What is perhaps striking is that Mills theory is applicable to a variety of situations. Unlike Kant for ex...

the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...