You be the Judge #3 Deborah Andriaccio D’Youville College Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of LAW 303V Judge Thomas Rebhan June 6‚ 2014 Kashin V. Kent 457 F.3d 1033‚ 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 20496 United States Court of Appeals for The Ninth Circuit‚ 2006 Scope of employment refers to a person actively involved in an employment task at a particular time. It usually becomes an issue when an accident occurs‚ which is required to make
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6 SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY Kant also distinguishes three kinds of free- dom: freedom of choice‚ or free will; freedom as self-regulation‚ or autonomy; and freedom as civil liberty. Freedom of choice is a natural property of all human beings‚ and refers to the fact that human conduct is not wholly determined by animal impulses. Autonomy is the capacity of a subject to legislate and abide by ethical impera- tives of his own making. Civil liberty
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uphold unhappiness. Kantian ethics on the other hand puts a persons benefit before the greater good‚ that is people never should be used as means only but means to an end. Both Kant’s ethics and Utilitarianism greatly analogize between each other as Kant is deontological which means that someone ought to do things because they are right‚ as it is duty and that in itself makes it right. On the other hand Utilitarianism is based on consequence as someone should act to bring the greatest good to the greatest
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believed in an ethical theory known as utilitarianism. Kant and Mill both articulate thought that praise the use of reason as the ultimate good‚ that which leads to enlightenment and a general understanding and certainty‚ as Mill would put it. The two philosophers‚ while both striving to reach the same goal‚ ultimately achieve their goals in a different sense‚ and even demonstrate slight discrepancy in what they ultimately mean to attain. Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill both addresses the issues of
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A CRITICAL STUDY OF VIRTUE ETHICS IN ARISTOTLE AND KANT Aristotle was the first western thinker to divide philosophy into branches which are still recognizable today: logic‚ metaphysics‚ and natural philosophy‚ philosophy of mind‚ ethics and politics‚ rhetoric; he made major contributions in all these fields. He was born in Stagira‚ a city of northern Greece in 384 BC. His father Nicomachus was a doctor at the court of Amyntas of Macedon‚ who preceded Philip‚ the conqueror of much of Greece. Aristotle
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consideration cultural norms‚ beliefs‚ values‚ or the code of law. One universal view that holds is that people do encourage morality‚ and punishment of immoral people (Hofmann‚ Wilhelm‚ et al‚ 1340). Emmanuel Kant and John Mill developed theories to explain the nature of morality among human beings. Emmanuel Kant based his argument on reasoning and human responsibility where he advocates the use of rational thinking and respect for other people. John
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Born Immanuel Kant in what is now known‚ as Kalingrad Russia in 1724‚ Kant became one of the greatest philosophers since the Greeks. Kant stayed in his hometown for most of his life and became famous for his brilliant mind and thoughts of his own ethical theory. Kant’s ethical theory is an analysis of the bases of the concepts of moral code and moral obligation. His theory goes into breaking down and giving guidelines to those rational beings who wish to live or seek to live a purely good life. They
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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who‚ like several philosophers at the time‚ contemplated and wrote about morality‚ specifically the origin of human morals. Kant‚ unlike these other thinkers‚ believed that morality and religion‚ two topics that were typically paired together when speaking about morality‚ should be kept separate because they did not belong together. Kant believed that the only way to determine what was morally right and wrong could only be found by engaging reason‚ not religion
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desires rather than categorical ought where it is possible due to reason (EMP 128-129). The “ought” implies that the ultimate aim of rational beings is to become perfectly moral. If we ought to work then we can become perfect and it can be possible. Kant believes using the Categorical Imperative is best‚ because it expresses to act only according to that maxim‚ whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal moral law (RTD 60). This practical reason issues that it commands
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Catalogo‚ Nathalie G. University of Makati IV – GMK Prof. Richard Nellas Immanuel Kant German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is considered the most influential thinker of the Enlightenment era and one of the greatest Western philosophers of all times. His works‚ especially those on epistemology (theory of knowledge)‚ aesthetics and ethics had a profound influence on later philosophers‚ including contemporary
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