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Socrates to John Dewey on Education

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...

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...

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...

Philosophy and Whether to Inform or Keep Mum

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...

Information Technology Responsibilities and Professional Ethics

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

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...

Kantian Concepts of Morality

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

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...

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...

US' Diminishing Democracy

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

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

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...

Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Moral Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

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...

Moral Considerations of Philippa Foot

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

Animal Rights

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

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...

Sexual Views of Immanuel Kant

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

Western Philosophy and the Middle Ages

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

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

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

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

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

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

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...

A Discussion of Three Concepts

IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...

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...

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...

Knowledge and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...