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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

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

the backcountry, where the weather gets very dry and then, pass on any of their costs to customers instead of holding the company ...

boundary. The private information falls within a boundary; the individual believes they own whatever information is included withi...

counselor. Counselors not only have their own set of personal values, they hold a set of professional values. Confidentiality is o...

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

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...