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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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

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

for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...

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

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

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...

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

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...

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