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ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

moral philosophy. It is important to understand that Kant makes a clear distinction between perceiving and thinking, which he cre...

In five pages this paper examines Kant's perspective on moral worth and duty. One source is cited in the bibliography....

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

In five pages this report examines how Kant offered philosophical distinctions between right or the responsibilities of justice an...

In arguing with the Empiricists, Kant noted that the mind is necessary in order to quantify experience; that the mind isnt a blank...

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...

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

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

In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

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

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

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

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...