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In seven pages this research paper examines the ethical theory of Immanuel Kant in a consideration of his lying stance. Four sour...
looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...
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...
In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...
knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...
the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...
particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
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 ...
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...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
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...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...