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mans attention. After running in fear from Jezebel, the Lord attracted Elijahs attention by using an earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11,...
Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
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...
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...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
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...
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...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
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...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...