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Essays 181 - 210
non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...
humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...
human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...
In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...
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...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
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 ...
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...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
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...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
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...
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...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
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...
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...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
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...
all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...