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

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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, ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

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...

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