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In ten pages this paper examines the topics of war, peace, and defense from the perspective of Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by...

In five pages this paper considers 3 formulations regarding a single categorical imperative as presented in this philosophical tre...

In five pages this paper examines the theories of Immanuel Kant as they relate to morality and making choices based upon ethical c...

In five pages this paper discusses the tort reform laws of Congress, the case of Stella Liebeck, and how each would be supported b...

At the same time, Kant would argue that even if the final result of a mans moral choice is not positive, this does not negate his ...

In eight pages this paper assesses the moral and legal responsibilities of Exxon regarding the oil spill with the philosophy of Im...

In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...

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

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...

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...

This paper consists of five pages and applies the moral imperative of Immanuel Kant to the concept of sexuality. Four sources are...

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...

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability 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 ...

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

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

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...

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

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

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...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...