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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...

to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that.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

In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

In five pages this report examines how Kant offered philosophical distinctions between right or the responsibilities of justice an...

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

This 8 page paper responds to the question of whether a utilitarian approach to moral reasoning is adequate. The writer first desc...

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

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...