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world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

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

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

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

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

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

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

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...

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...

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

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

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

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

In nine pages this paper examines teaching philosophies in this overview that explores the relationship between philosophy and edu...

In five pages this paper examines the US educational philosophy from an educator's perspective with John Dewey's philosophy among ...

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

trafficking, even within the different cultures and in the Middle East, is reflected with the majority of countries in that area s...

the backcountry, where the weather gets very dry and then, pass on any of their costs to customers instead of holding the company ...

become complex, as the firm has a duty to the shareholders to undertake business to create profit, potential losses and lost oppor...

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...