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In five pages this paper discusses happiness and virtue as these concepts relate to Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. Three...

In 5 pages this paper examines the universal morality philosophy of Immanuel Kant and how it can be applied to daily life. One sou...

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

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...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

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

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

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

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

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

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

In this paper consisting of seven pages this paper examines family integration of children with disabilities according to the find...

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

In a paper consisting of five pages the advantages to personal and business relationships offered by eliminating competition accor...

pull up a chair. De Pree correlates the skills of a jazz musician: improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration, with wo...