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is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

a man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). "Work" is not always something that returns money as a reward or p...

In seventeen pages the collapses of several structural buildings in Asia are discussed in a consideration of design ethics and com...

in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...

considered moral to steal or lie. Anti-abortion activists have taken this a step further, considering their murdering of abortion ...

that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...

there are other outside influences. In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can aff...

offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...

This paper examines how in Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection, Immanuel Kant refutes Locke and Leibniz's theories in 5 pages....

In arguing with the Empiricists, Kant noted that the mind is necessary in order to quantify experience; that the mind isnt a blank...

trafficking, even within the different cultures and in the Middle East, is reflected with the majority of countries in that area s...

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

This paper consists of five pages and applies the moral imperative of Immanuel Kant to the concept of sexuality. Four sources are...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the concept of government as represen...

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

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

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

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

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

technical crime. It is worth noting that ethics is not what values are actually held by the courts or the individuals, but of th...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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