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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

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...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

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

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...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

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

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

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

fueled by a rising tide of nationalism. The traditions and problems dated back so many years that it would be nearly impossible to...

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

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...