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

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...

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...

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 ...

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

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...

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...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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