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Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

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...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

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