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that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...
The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...
ethics, or those which are based on moral obligation and duty. Kant argued that "the moral status of an action is not determined b...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
felt that a similar approach could be taken with regard to consciousness....
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
In five pages this report considers how morality can be taught in the public school system by applying the human knowledge theory ...
Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...
This paper offers summary, contrasts, comparisons, and weakness analyses of these ethical philosophies. No additional sources are...
In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of Immanuel Kant with John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. There ...
In six pages this paper examines how the morality theories of these philosophers can be practically applied. Two sources are cite...
In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...
this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...
right. Kant felt that right actions had moral value in of themselves, not simply because of their consequences. Therefore, he wrot...
not believe that we should be without kings, but that their power should be limited, "That Kings are not superiors to, but adminis...
human comparable with Kants ideas? For Nietzsche, the noble human being strives to be alone, to stand up for himself, to take on r...
there is a contradiction. Good will should be implemented, but at the same time, there is a sense that relying on such ideas, or s...
tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...
principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
He created man and should do whatever it takes to support his development and sustenance. To that end, he saw it necessary to main...
choice of Adam and Eve to disobey Gods commandment (Law, 2007). According to Augustine, their acts brought about two crucial conse...
two very separate subjects. However, there are a number of laws where there are no apparent sanctions non-compliance, therefore s...
and a posterior arguments here, there is a priori knowledge of Gods existence but that knowledge is beyond human understanding. In...
truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...
as it moves form lower life forms towards more perfect higher forms that are capable of varying degrees of intelligence and ration...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...
the problem-solving work "forward by rendering intelligible the problems various dimensions" (Miller, 2002, p. 173). The first se...