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Transcendental Unity

This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...

Immanuel Kant on Morality

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...

Applying Utilitarianism to an Ethical Decision

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Voltaire and Kant

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

Morality and Religion According to Immanuel Kant

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

Immanuel Kant and Universality's Significance

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...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

Internet and Immorality

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

Moral Considerations of Philippa Foot

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

Animal Rights

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

US' Diminishing Democracy

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

Immanuel Kant and Martin Luther King Jr.

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

Morality of the Will and the Theories of Immanuel Kant

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...

Western Philosophy and the Middle Ages

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

Cloning and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

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...

Lying and Infidelity

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

The Social Contract and Autonomy

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

Philosophers on Moral Theory

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

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

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...