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particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...
actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...
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...
rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
other ends. Such an end might already exist, or might be something which the actor strives to bring about by his actions. In 4:428...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
To understand this we need to look at some of the underlying principles to the multiplier and accelerator effect. Let us look at t...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
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 ...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...