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will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
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...
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...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
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...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
institution of marriage, and the influence that family structures, including relationship triangles, have on individuals. Because...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...
(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...