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In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...
moral philosophy. It is important to understand that Kant makes a clear distinction between perceiving and thinking, which he cre...
In five pages this paper examines Kant's perspective on moral worth and duty. One source is cited in the bibliography....
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
In arguing with the Empiricists, Kant noted that the mind is necessary in order to quantify experience; that the mind isnt a blank...
have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...
they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...
understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...
for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...
the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...
to their marriage, but they lust in their hearts. Some might fault such individuals anyway, because they are acting only due to th...
and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...
a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...
their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...
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 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 ...
exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...
first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
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...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...