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

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

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

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...

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

they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have bee...

is simply ludicrous (1983). Indeed, how can one say that there is peace when war could come about at some point? It is similar to ...

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...

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

In five pages this report presents a comparative analysis of the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx particularly as they ...

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

mans attention. After running in fear from Jezebel, the Lord attracted Elijahs attention by using an earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11,...

donor for their present child in need of a transplant (1990). To Kant, that was wrong and while other segments of society would be...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Caucasian and Mexican American cultural views regarding adultery and divorce and t...

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

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

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...