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

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

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

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

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...

for Life," commenting that ...we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, knowledge which enervates activity, and his...

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

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

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

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

lives. If a knife is to someones throat, should he or she lie in order to save his or her life? Many people would say yes, but to ...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

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...

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...

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...

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

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

lead to irrational ends (Lear, 1995). For Freud who used psychoanalysis to try and account for human irrationality it was determi...

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

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

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

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

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

the true nature of man and the meaning of individuality. In looking at Nietzsches works, one can see that he sees individuality a...