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In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

In five pages this report examines how Kant offered philosophical distinctions between right or the responsibilities of justice an...

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

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

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

In arguing with the Empiricists, Kant noted that the mind is necessary in order to quantify experience; that the mind isnt a blank...

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

to their marriage, but they lust in their hearts. Some might fault such individuals anyway, because they are acting only due to th...

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...

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

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

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

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

In seven pages whether or not moral claims can be justified is examined philosophically with an integration of views from Foucault...