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

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

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

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...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

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

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

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

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

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

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...

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

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

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...

shows compassion, but also seems confused at times as well. For the most part he is out to have a good time and enjoy a good adven...

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

the head of the agencys music operations to leave as well, citing "philosophical differences" in terms of the agencys focus and di...

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

adventurous spirit that is within man, and certainly within Huck, that allows him to pursue adventure with such fervor. Of course,...

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

student prefers to cite a movie. Additionally, as this writer/tutor knows nothing of the students background, for this assignment,...

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

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

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...

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

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

This essay deal specifically with the character of Laura from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The writer discusses her ...

and telling Huck his story. They both decide to simply hide out on the island together, fishing and getting what they can on the i...

States possesses this knowledge and technology for health concerns, Americans are constantly showing signs of incredibly bad healt...