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perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

Railroad Station (Soul of America, 2002). The Abyssinian Baptist Church was founded in 1808 as a result of segregation in a white...

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...

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

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...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

standards and then exemplifies those himself (2000). For example, in a coaching situation, a leader may mandate that a cross count...

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...

In eight pages a Sociological Review article based upon Richard Ekins' study contained in Male Femaling A Grounded Theory Approa...

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...

way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...

In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...

In six pages this research paper defines morality within the context of Kant's philosophy and also considers supreme morality's va...

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...