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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...

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

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...

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

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

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

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

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

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

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

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

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

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

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

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

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 ...

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 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...

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