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Overview of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

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

Karl Marx's 1844 Manuscripts Ideas

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

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

Christine Busalacchi and Euthanasia

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

Civilization's Future, Women, and Liberty According to J.S. Mill

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...

Analyzing David Hume's Essay 'Miracles'

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...

Socrates and Callicles Dialogue

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

Goodness and Philosophy

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

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

Secular Society and Doubt and Belief

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...

Soul's Role in Plato's The Republic and Phaedo

In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...

German Middle Ages and Philosopher Leo Strauss

hearts of those he represented. It was Strauss ongoing quest to delve into the deepest recesses of German intellectuals and polit...

'Evil Genius' and Rene Descartes

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

Society's Impoverished

In five pages this paper examines how society views its impoverished classes from religious, philosophical, political, and economi...

Moral Freedom According to Jean Paul Sartre and Immanuel Kant

always considered as an end in himself" (35). In other words, this man would ultimately be persuaded not to take his own life by ...

Carol Hanisch's 'The Personal is Political'

In seven pages this paper examines this slogan in a consideration of its organizational as well as philosophical ramifications. F...

Philosophical Views on Human History

In five pages this paper discusses society's development in relationship to humans in a consideration of the philosophical perspec...

Political Theory of Jewish Philosopher Moses Maimonides

the context of a modern society. Certainly, today Maimonides instruction to beat wives who neglect their wifely "duties" would not...

Reasons or Causes and Individual Actions

In fourteen pages the causality of people's actions and whether or not they are rooted in reasons are examined through social scie...

Ramanuja and Sankara Compared

In five pages two Indian Vedanta philosophical doctrines are examined in a comparative analysis. Six sources are cited in the bib...

Philosophy and the Concept of 'Good'

What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

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

Perceptions and Awareness of Aesthetics

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

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

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

A Review of Two Faces of Intention by Michael Bratman

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

Mozart's Don Giovanni and the Themes of Enlightenment and Class Conflict

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

Evaluating The Protestest Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

of the group. Some groups, as in organization, are sometimes referred to as parties, Weber seems to state. Mostly, parties aim fo...

Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre

of the Catholic Church. MacIntyre introduces his principal thesis in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by pointing out that form...

Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

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

John Stuart Mill Arguing in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana

In five pages the philosophical concepts of John Stuart Mill are used to argue in support of U.S. marijuana legalization. Three s...