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

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

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

identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...

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

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 ...

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...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

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...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

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...

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

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

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

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

other ends. Such an end might already exist, or might be something which the actor strives to bring about by his actions. In 4:428...

In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...

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

Zarathustra begins as follows: "When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into th...

reference regarding a camel fitting through the eye of the needle. Certainly, Nietzsche did not mean to suggest anything beyond th...

In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...

In twelve pages the moral doctrines articulated by German philosopher Immanuel Kant are related to principles of Catholicism and U...

In five pages the pure reason ideal as depicted in this philosophical treatise by Immanuel Kant is analyzed. There are no other s...

In five pages the social role of justice is evaluated by employing the philosophical views of Plato and Immanuel Kant. Four sourc...

In five pages this paper examines a Supreme Personal Being's role in the religious experiences with beliefs addressed in the philo...

In five pages this paper discusses the tort reform laws of Congress, the case of Stella Liebeck, and how each would be supported b...