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A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

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

Moral Permissibility of an Educator Raising the Grade of a Student

In five pages the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Rawls are applied to a consideration of whether or not it is ethically ac...

Goodness According to Immanuel Kant

In five pages summum bonum and categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant are examined in order to determine his philosophy regarding...

Lying Viewed Through Kant's Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...

Hume, Kant, and Aristotle

In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...

Euthanasia According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

is the same condition that essentially puts them in an ethical position to make this choice. The integration of Kants perspective...

Kant, Aquinas, and Others on the Existence of God

In six pages philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas are incorporated into a series of student submitted questions a...

Subjectivist vs. Rationalist Philosophical Theories

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...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

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

Deontological and Utilitarian Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplants

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

Mind, Time, and Space According to Critique on Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

Aesthetic Judgment as Interpreted by Immanuel Kant

to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...

Knowledge Theories Empiricism and Rationalism

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

Thomas Youk's Assisted Suicide Aired on Television

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

Needs of Society and Individualism

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

Ethics and Advertising

In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

A Capital Punishment Analysis

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

Egoism and Deontology

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

Information Technology Responsibilities and Professional Ethics

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

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

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

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

Cloning and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

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...

Lying and Infidelity

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

Corporations and Self Limiting of Size

after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...

Ethics From Teleological and Deontological Philosophical Perspectives

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...