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will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

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

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

define it. Is it the ability to express ones opinion without fear of reprisals? Or is it the freedom to avoid expressing an opinio...

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

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...

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

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

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...

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

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

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

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...

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, ...

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...

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

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

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...

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

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...

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

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...

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

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

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

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...