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their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...
to their marriage, but they lust in their hearts. Some might fault such individuals anyway, because they are acting only due to th...
and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...
a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...
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...
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
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...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...
way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...
In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...
de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...
In six pages 7 student posed questions regarding how these philosophers interpret morality and ethics are answered. Four sources ...
In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...
In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....
always considered as an end in himself" (35). In other words, this man would ultimately be persuaded not to take his own life by ...
In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...
In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...