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Deontological and Utilitarian Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplants

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

Mind, Time, and Space According to Critique on Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Voltaire and Kant

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

Significant Contributions of Immanuel Kant

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

Animal Rights

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

Internet and Immorality

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

Reason, Good Will, and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

Homeless Assistance and Value Theory

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

Immanuel Kant and Universality's Significance

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

Lying and Infidelity

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

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Sin and Free Will as Viewed by Jean Paul Sartre

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

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

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

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

Apperception Principle of Immanuel Kant

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

What is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and How It is Flawed

lives. If a knife is to someones throat, should he or she lie in order to save his or her life? Many people would say yes, but to ...

Humanity Formula of Immanuel Kant

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...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

Good and Evil According to Immanuel Kant

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

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

Military Duty and Kantian Ethics

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

Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Explained by Philosophy and Science

mans attention. After running in fear from Jezebel, the Lord attracted Elijahs attention by using an earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11,...

Lying Viewed Through Kant's Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...

Euthanasia According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

is the same condition that essentially puts them in an ethical position to make this choice. The integration of Kants perspective...

Kant, Aquinas, and Others on the Existence of God

In six pages philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas are incorporated into a series of student submitted questions a...

A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

to his awakening and allowed him to become a critical philosopher, "synthesizing the rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of ...

Transcendental Deduction and Immanuel Kant

In nine pages this essay discusses metaphysics, a priori and synthetic forms of knowledge, transcendental deduction, and metaphysi...

Justice According to Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Plato

In seven pages this paper discusses the many components and perspectives on justice utilizing the categorical imperative of Immanu...