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Kant/Speculative Beginning of Human History

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

Is It Immoral To Believe A Claim Without Evidence?

Of all the claims that lack evidence, none are as morally immense or elusive as whether or not God exists. Supporters contend the...

Reaction to the Reading: A Genealogical Analysis of the Cognitive Content of Morality

night and gives the field its reputation for obscurity. Reaction to the meaning of the text: Having said all that, what does the ...

Sex and Morality

accepted element in some of the more primitive of the worlds societies, more advanced societies have historically regarded promisc...

Acts of Violence and Hamlet

This essay presents the arguments that Hamlet had to be under the influence of intense emotion in order to overcome his indecision...

Theoretical Foundation for Humanitarianism

This essay discusses a specific theoretical foundation for humanitarianism called the theory of obligation which, in part, propose...

Public Policy and Religion, Morality, Worldview

This essay considers how public policy is affected by religion, morality and worldview. Three pages in length, four sources are ci...

The Argument for Progressive Taxation

the people. For many individuals, the idea that resources should be redistributed, and that the very wealthy should be made to sh...

Without God, Would Morality be Possible?

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

Friendship Breakdown, Morality, and Logic

friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...

Aristotle's Legal Defense of a Guilty Man

and then define the perfect solution to problems that might arise. Aristotle claimed that: "I have gained this from philosophy: I ...

Business and the Role of Ethics

system is well designed then it may even be their own job that becomes redundant (Taylor and Moynihan, 2002). Here we see that IT...

Morality of the Will and the Theories of Immanuel Kant

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...

"Flatliners": Do the Ends Justify the Means?

of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...

Physician Assisted Suicide (A Literature Review)

though he had a good chance of full recovery. This suggests that patients be allowed to terminate their lives if they are in sever...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

Does Motive Matter?

just as problematic when tied to an ordinary citizen as it is for a police officer, the government sees that the motive is differe...

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

the morality, or immorality, of his actions. He does, of course seem to realize that much of what he lost, long ago, was lost when...

"Mankind" and "Everyman"

play is Everyman, who obviously stands for everyone in the audience. This is play designed to teach a lesson, and the lesson is si...

Golden Rule and Egoism

is the right thing to do, even if it will make life much more difficult for the individuals involved. Others suggest that the fetu...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

'Theory of Moral Sentiment' by Adam Smith

could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....

Abortion from the Christian Perspective

(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...

Common Denominator in Works by Walzer, Bellah et al, and Etzioni

exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Immanuel Kant on Morality

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

Toleration as Defined in 'A Letter Concerning Toleration' by John Locke

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Morality and Knowledge According to Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

Justification of the Iraq War and Other Alternative Perspectives

just cause war. According to Sterba, there are three criteria that constitute a just war. "There must be substantial aggressio...