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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 ...

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

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...

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

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

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

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

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...

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

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

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

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

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

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

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...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

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

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

In this way, Buddhism became accessible to all, and was able to develop the concept of community which...

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...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

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

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

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

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