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past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...
significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
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...
The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...
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...
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...
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...
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...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
This 6 page paper discusses the theories of both Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, gives an example of an ethical problem and de...
irresistible force" and the result would be the establishment of the perfect civil constitution (Kant 45-46). Mans complicity in ...
In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...
In thirty five pages various philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant are incorporated into an ...