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not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

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

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...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

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

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...

way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

to their marriage, but they lust in their hearts. Some might fault such individuals anyway, because they are acting only due to th...

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

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

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

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

In five pages this report examines how Kant offered philosophical distinctions between right or the responsibilities of justice an...

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...