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

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

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

In five pages this paper considers philosophies of James Mills and Immanuel Kant in a discussion of how philosophy can develop iss...

This paper offers summary, contrasts, comparisons, and weakness analyses of these ethical philosophies. No additional sources are...

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

accepted element in some of the more primitive of the worlds societies, more advanced societies have historically regarded promisc...

consciousness" (Sayadaw). These are the normal processes of perception, movement, and consciousness. With this concept Buddha arri...

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

the greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...

is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...

closest to as it is hard to be objective in such a circumstance. State the specific circumstances involved with the case. To prov...

And Nietzsche might agree. After all, if morality is a fluke, then everything is okay. Of course, in other writings, Nietzsche di...

seeking it have been unable to achieve it on their own. This is high praise and noble purpose for a structure that Madison called...

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

would come about as a natural consequence of romanticism ("Romanticism," 2005). For example, romantic music inspired nationalist t...

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

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

womens lives were a measurement in comparison to these male priorities and values. The life of a woman, in other words, was that ...

that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...

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...

that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...

The correlation between social and economic power and the perception of gender is something which has been addressed by various hi...

line of work, or even work at all. The government does demand allegiance and can draft members of the society if a war thus demand...

the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

reasons why Mill make this assertion at the close of his argument lie within the work itself. In chapter III, Mill puts worth two ...

being antithetical to their interests, but rather looked upon government as an instrument for promoting and protecting the interes...

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...