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

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

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

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

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

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

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

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

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

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

that lying is not only necessary in some circumstances, but one may go beyond the few exceptions and see good in the lie. It is ce...

The correlation between social and economic power and the perception of gender is something which has been addressed by various hi...

that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...

reasons, among them the reaction of fear and disbelief. John Stuart Mill addressed the fatalism of his age by theorizing the prin...

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

reasons why Mill make this assertion at the close of his argument lie within the work itself. In chapter III, Mill puts worth two ...

line of work, or even work at all. The government does demand allegiance and can draft members of the society if a war thus demand...

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

Still, most Americans see themselves as free and voice their opinions loudly. What does this mean exactly? Is it the same freedom ...

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

being antithetical to their interests, but rather looked upon government as an instrument for promoting and protecting the interes...

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

in which genetic information will be used by insurance companies and employers in order to discriminate. It is discrimination that...