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of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

(Himma, 2003). Throughout their lifetime, individuals are presented with moral dilemmas and situations in which they must make a ...

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

In seven pages an argument that supports the death penalty as justified punishment in terms of retribution, deterrence, and infall...

This paper considers 2 Victorian Age writings, essayist John Stuart Mill's 'Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment' and John Henry ...

the death penalty is rarely used and perhaps not used on a consistent basis involving particular crimes. Regardless, however, ther...

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

a moral or an ethic is right for it is a very personal reality. As such one can only persuade another to their side with the under...

in "cases involving a person who is convicted of multiple first-degree intentional homicides, if the homicides are vicious and the...

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

regarded as being little more than attempting to keep a pig satisfied. Because man has the intellectual capacity for reason, he s...

This 8 page paper responds to the question of whether a utilitarian approach to moral reasoning is adequate. The writer first desc...

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

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

In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...

Conformity was the rule of the republic, certainly not the exception. Plato was not at all concerned with the problems of the ind...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

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...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

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