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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...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...
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...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
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...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
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...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
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...
circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...
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...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
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...
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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...
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...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
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...