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Essays 181 - 210
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...
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...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...
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...
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...
In this six papge paper the writer explores Miller's autobiography and emphasizes his contributions to American theater. His cont...
been presented to the National Assembly in France" (53). It is interesting to note that when reading Rousseau she would become ang...
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...
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...
first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...
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 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...
way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
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...
exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...