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moral philosophy. It is important to understand that Kant makes a clear distinction between perceiving and thinking, which he cre...
In seven pages this paper discusses the many components and perspectives on justice utilizing the categorical imperative of Immanu...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...
first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
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...
based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...
delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...
nature of human thought. Kants stance is extremely rational. However, some of his maxims prove to be unworkable in regards to ce...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...
In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...
physical body to be sold, for the enjoyment of others, is tantamount to transforming the human body into a physical object. Kant...
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...
divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...
exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...
sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
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...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...
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...
all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...