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Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and the Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...

Morality According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...

Response to Philippa Foot

This 3 page paper is a response to Philippa Foot’s critique of Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative. ...

Thomas Aquinas, On Law

reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

Intelligent Design and Aquinas

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

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

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

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

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

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

Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics

In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...

Does Believing in God's Existence Make Any Sense?

In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...

Concepts of Saint Thomas Aquinas

has likely already noted that . Bracken (1996) suggests that what is missing from Aquinass argument is a distinction between per...

Kant, Aquinas, and Others on the Existence of God

In six pages philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas are incorporated into a series of student submitted questions a...

Philosophical Arguments Pertaining to God's Existence

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

Nietzsche, Kant, and Locke Perspectives on Western Philosophical Causality Since Descartes

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the Concept of Government

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the concept of government as represen...

People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Aquinas by F.C. Copleston

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

Authority , Just War and Thomas Aquinas

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

Ethical Theories and Norma Rae

offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...

Locke and Leibniz Refuted by Immanuel Kant

This paper examines how in Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection, Immanuel Kant refutes Locke and Leibniz's theories in 5 pages....

Philosophical Essay Applications

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

Comparison of Thomas Aquinas's Writings and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...

Thomas Aquinas

Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Kant/Speculative Beginning of Human History

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...