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and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
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...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
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...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...
ruled by others, even those who do not have their best interests at heart (Kant, 1970). Essentially, he contends that this situat...
a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...
humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...
new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...
In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...
human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...
In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...
In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...
However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...
based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...
delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...
philosophical movement that appeared in Great Britain and suggested that all knowledge is experiential ("British," 2004). In other...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
is simply ludicrous (1983). Indeed, how can one say that there is peace when war could come about at some point? It is similar to ...
significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...