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Essays 391 - 420
that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
from Jodie to Mary. The venous return passes from Mary to Jodie through a united inferior vena cava and other venous channels in t...
prevents not only the slaves but the Christians who own them from becoming enlightened through religion. Clearly, Immanual Kant a...
for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...
in developing nations is broad; the specific interest of a specific NGO depends on the organizations business and its goals for th...
the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...
hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...
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 ...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...
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 that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
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...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...