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Overview of Synthetic A Priori Philosophical Judgments

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

Reflective and Determinate Judgment

In three pages these concepts are defined and then the concept of pleasure is examined through an application of Immanuel Kant's c...

'The World's Oldest Profession' as a Degradation of Women

degrading 5. Throughout history we have evidence of right versus wrong; of morality versus immorality 6. In this way, it...

Moral Conduct and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

nature of human thought. Kants stance is extremely rational. However, some of his maxims prove to be unworkable in regards to ce...

Philosophy and Morality

a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...

Theology and the Impact of the Enlightenment

As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reaso...

Kantian Ethics and Reason

lying promise is ethical, even if it might save the life of a child. Smythe (1998) writes: "As Kant had indicated, we have a duty...

Kant on the End of All Things and Perpetual Peace

never having existed at all (Kant). He also points out that we have "nothing before us that could now teach us anything about our ...

Good Will and Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

any experience they may have gained in this aspect. Rational beings need not confer with others in order to determine a true good ...

Mr. V and a Nursing Ethics Case Study

is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....

Philosophy of Idealism

the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...

Physician Drug Freebies and Ethics

first place and eschewing the monetary aspect so often clouding ones ethical perspective. "Looking back now on all previous attem...

Land Mine Marketing and Ethics

area where the mines were laid" (14). Only the most determined and profit-oriented marketer or the one with no sense of moral scru...

Medical Practicing on Newly Dead Bodies and Ethics

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

Ethical Validity of Conscription

Halberstadts involvement with the military didnt end after Vietnam. Indeed, he has moved in and out of the military circle for de...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

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...

Moral Liberalism, Moral Communitarianism, and Moral Relativism

it is not necessary that everybody feel compelled or obligated to do so. Moral Communitarianism The philosophy and scholarship of...

Knowledge and First Truth According to Descartes' Meditations

This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...

Knowledge According to Socrates and Descartes

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...

Modern Education and Immanuel Kant's Philosophy

working out the Critical philosophy. According to Bowman (1999), this quote articulates the chief motivation of the Critical philo...

Duty of the Individual and Immanuel Kant

In six pages Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant is examined in a consideration of perfect and imperfect dut...

Consequences of Moral Philosophy

In one page this essay considers how Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy on consequences transforms it into the utilitarianism princ...

Consideration of Philosophical Moral Traditions

are the core of moral tradition as defined within the context of societal constraints. Most people associate moral tradition with...

God, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Virtue According to Descartes and Aristotle

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...

Ethical Views on Euthanasia

In five pages a nursing perspective is presented in this ethical consideration of euthanasia and its related issues with reference...

Analysis of Good Will as Conceptualized by Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper contemplates the 'goodness' of good will as featured in Immanuel Kant's work The Grounding for the Metaph...

Kantian Ethics Applied to the Abortion Issue

the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed o...

Two Classical Era Ethical Theorists on Animal Experimentation

comes to the living world as a whole, inasmuch as species perceive issues of control in significantly different ways. If utilitar...

Zen Buddhism Philosophy, Suzuki Roshi, and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines the philosophical similarities and differences between Suzuki Roshi's and Immanuel Kant's theorie...