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Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

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

Aesthetic Judgment as Interpreted by Immanuel Kant

to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...

Ethics and Advertising

In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...

World Knowledge and the Mind

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

Humanist Philosophies of Immanuel Kant in Metaphysics Of Morals

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

A Capital Punishment Analysis

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

Morality According to Kant and Mill

In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...

Needs of Society and Individualism

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

Love According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

Thomas Youk's Assisted Suicide Aired on Television

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

911, the Media, and Ethics

In six pages the media coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is evaluated in terms of ethics and then applies the p...

Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics

In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...

Knowledge and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...

Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke and Adam Smith on the Enlightenment

In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...

Immanuel Kant and Deontology

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

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

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

Political Ideologies of East and West Compared

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Ethics From Teleological and Deontological Philosophical Perspectives

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

Corporations and Self Limiting of Size

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

Egoism and Deontology

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

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

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

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...

Accountability of Nongovernmental Organizations

in developing nations is broad; the specific interest of a specific NGO depends on the organizations business and its goals for th...

Emergency Room and Making Ethical Decisions

the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...

Lying and Infidelity

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

Case Study Analysis and the Philosophies of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...