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In one page this essay considers how Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy on consequences transforms it into the utilitarianism princ...
are the core of moral tradition as defined within the context of societal constraints. Most people associate moral tradition with...
the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...
In five pages the contributions of these 2 men and their significant contributions to African American intellectual thought are co...
A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...
In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...
seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...
the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...
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...
In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...
human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...
In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...
sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...