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Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...
In five pages this paper considers 3 formulations regarding a single categorical imperative as presented in this philosophical tre...
In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...
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 five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...
In five pages this paper discusses morality in a consideration of Immanuel Kant's theories in an examination of the universal free...
In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...
never having existed at all (Kant). He also points out that we have "nothing before us that could now teach us anything about our ...
is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...
freedom of speech as well as to be able to use reason publicly in all matters without fear of retribution, is very important. It i...
degrading 5. Throughout history we have evidence of right versus wrong; of morality versus immorality 6. In this way, it...
a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...
As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reaso...
lying promise is ethical, even if it might save the life of a child. Smythe (1998) writes: "As Kant had indicated, we have a duty...
In three pages these concepts are defined and then the concept of pleasure is examined through an application of Immanuel Kant's c...
an emotional argument such as that, it is not sufficient to prompt a true, logical conclusion regarding the problem of world hunge...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
area where the mines were laid" (14). Only the most determined and profit-oriented marketer or the one with no sense of moral scru...
the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...
In eight pages this paper discusses the concept of autonomy within the context of Immanuel Kant's philosophy and in the text Angel...
the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed o...
comes to the living world as a whole, inasmuch as species perceive issues of control in significantly different ways. If utilitar...