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In five pages an evaluation of the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant, which contends that there is never an ethical justific...

In ten pages this paper examines the topics of war, peace, and defense from the perspective of Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by...

In five pages this paper examines a Supreme Personal Being's role in the religious experiences with beliefs addressed in the philo...

In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...

In twelve pages the moral doctrines articulated by German philosopher Immanuel Kant are related to principles of Catholicism and U...

that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...

Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...

In five pages this paper examines the theories of Immanuel Kant as they relate to morality and making choices based upon ethical c...

In eight pages this paper assesses the moral and legal responsibilities of Exxon regarding the oil spill with the philosophy of Im...

In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...

In five pages this paper discusses the tort reform laws of Congress, the case of Stella Liebeck, and how each would be supported b...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

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...

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...

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...