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

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

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

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

philosophical movement that appeared in Great Britain and suggested that all knowledge is experiential ("British," 2004). In other...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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

In eight pages the issues considered in Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life by Sommers and Sommers are discussed as they relate to al...

In six pages philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas are incorporated into a series of student submitted questions a...

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...

In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...

is the same condition that essentially puts them in an ethical position to make this choice. The integration of Kants perspective...

to consider the fact that when one stretches his ethical judgment and attempts to justify an immoral act, it can be argued that th...