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In six pages this paper discusses President Ronald Reagan's dismissal of air traffic controllers within the context of Kant's phil...

of poetry, since it is the expression of imagination that allows for emotional comprehension. Introduction Imagination i...

In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...

In five pages an examination of spiritual and religious enlightenment past and present is considered in a discussion of Foucault's...

This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...

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

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

for diseases. The workers are constantly fatigued from the long hours, some rooms are too hot, others too cold, some dripping with...

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...

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

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

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

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

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

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

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

In five pages this paper examines how Plato, Aristotle, and Immanuel Kant define political thinking. Six sources are cited in the...

This paper consists of five pages and applies the moral imperative of Immanuel Kant to the concept of sexuality. Four sources are...

knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...

to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

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...

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

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...

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...

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...