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worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...

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...

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...