SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Philosophical Comparison of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

Essays 361 - 390

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...

Social Contributions of Immanuel Kant

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

Military Duty and Kantian Ethics

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

Good and Evil According to Immanuel Kant

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Knowledge and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...

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...

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. ...

Immanuel Kant and Deontology

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...

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...

World Knowledge and the Mind

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

A Capital Punishment Analysis

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

Dark Passages in John Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale'

of the thinking principle (Keats,1008-1022). Secondly, he believed that one was propelled into the next chamber simply b...

911, the Media, and Ethics

In six pages the media coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is evaluated in terms of ethics and then applies the p...

Confidentiality Issues and Nursing Ethics

he could use public transportation to visit his parents nearby town. In short, the argument that Mr. Paul depends on his dr...

Accountability of Nongovernmental Organizations

in developing nations is broad; the specific interest of a specific NGO depends on the organizations business and its goals for th...

Case Study on Making Ethical Decisions

hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...

Ethics and Making Decisions

to be stopped by the police following a fight then it is easier to make the decision to report him, rather than if the explanation...

Human Cloning and Ethics

they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have bee...

Terminal Conditions and Informing Patients

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

Sports Journalism and Ethical Theory

In twenty two pages the ethical theories of Rawls, Aristotle, Kant, and Mill are applied to basic principles of sports journalism ...

Justifying Moral Claims

In seven pages whether or not moral claims can be justified is examined philosophically with an integration of views from Foucault...

Philosophy Defined

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

Issues in Philosophy

This research paper addresses eight specific quetions, offering answers, concerning issues that pertain to Kant, Mill and Aristotl...