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Western Philosophy and the Middle Ages

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

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

Philosophy and Barker's The Ghost Road and Du Maurier's Rebecca

In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

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

Sexual Views of Immanuel Kant

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

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

Abortion and Morality

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

Human Cloning and Ethics

they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have bee...

US' Diminishing Democracy

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

Identity Issues

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

A Discussion of the Pronouncement I Think

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

Philosophical Perspectives

philosophical movement that appeared in Great Britain and suggested that all knowledge is experiential ("British," 2004). In other...

Knowledge and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

Robert Bellah's Enlightenment Concept

ruled by others, even those who do not have their best interests at heart (Kant, 1970). Essentially, he contends that this situat...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Voltaire and Kant

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

Morality and Religion According to Immanuel Kant

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

Immanuel Kant and Universality's Significance

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...

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...

Internet and Immorality

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

Reason, Good Will, and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

Homeless Assistance and Value Theory

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

Moral Considerations of Philippa Foot

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

Animal Rights

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

Ethics and Business

new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...

John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Jim the Botanist by Bernard Williams

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

Cloning and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

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...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Confidentiality Issues and Nursing Ethics

he could use public transportation to visit his parents nearby town. In short, the argument that Mr. Paul depends on his dr...

A Business Dilemma and the Ethics of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hobbes

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

Nursing and Ethical Values

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...