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In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

In six pages this paper discusses crime and punishment in a fictitious dialogue between Kant, Hobbes, and Plato. Three sources ar...

way the world actually exists. This became the central premise of the body of theories that were described as Kants Copernican Re...

consider the fact that when one stretches his ethical judgment and attempts to justify an immoral act, it can be argued that there...

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...

In seven pages movie marketing approaches are examined in a comparative consideration of the methods used to market films Being Jo...

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

In five pages this paper examines the concept of 'political moralist' and how it does not apply to Kant's philosophical ideas rega...

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...

to their marriage, but they lust in their hearts. Some might fault such individuals anyway, because they are acting only due to th...

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

In arguing with the Empiricists, Kant noted that the mind is necessary in order to quantify experience; that the mind isnt a blank...

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

In five pages this report examines how Kant offered philosophical distinctions between right or the responsibilities of justice an...