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Essays 211 - 240
In thirty five pages various philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant are incorporated into an ...
In eight pages this paper assesses the moral and legal responsibilities of Exxon regarding the oil spill with the philosophy of Im...
In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...
ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...
actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
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...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
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...
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...
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...
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...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
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...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...