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

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

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 five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...

Is there any way to help schools that are seldom successful? It seems that changes are always being made in our public schools yet...

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

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

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

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...

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

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

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

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

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

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

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

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...

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

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...

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...

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

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...