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to his awakening and allowed him to become a critical philosopher, "synthesizing the rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of ...

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

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

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

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...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

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

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, ...

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...

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

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 ...

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

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...