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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...

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

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

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

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

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

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

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...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

lives. If a knife is to someones throat, should he or she lie in order to save his or her life? Many people would say yes, but to ...

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...

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...