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never having existed at all (Kant). He also points out that we have "nothing before us that could now teach us anything about our ...
this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...
not all agree with that assessment. Harvey began to mistrust the government which could prove dangerous if he were to become invo...
ethics, or those which are based on moral obligation and duty. Kant argued that "the moral status of an action is not determined b...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
In five pages this report considers how morality can be taught in the public school system by applying the human knowledge theory ...
In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of Immanuel Kant with John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. There ...
In six pages this paper examines how the morality theories of these philosophers can be practically applied. Two sources are cite...
In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...
In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...
the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...
on their own account." The disciple shows Strepsiades a globe used for astronomy and a map used for geometry. Strepsiades see...
A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...
This 3 page paper argues that the Iraqis have been lied to by both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...
cover many different subjects in the course of one conversation. I have found just the opposite to be true. I can remember sitting...
ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...
the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...
sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...
seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...
divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...
In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...
non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...