Essay Exam 3-1 In this essay I’m going to address questions concerning Kant’s grounding for the metaphysics of morals. First‚ I will describe each of his examples of acts done out of desire and acts done out of duty. Then I will answer the following questions: 1. What conclusion about moral worth does Kant use these examples to illustrate? 2. Whether I agree or disagree with Kant that if you perform an action out of duty‚ then the act has more moral worth that it would if you were to perform it
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there is only two choices; stay with the terminal ill mother or serve the government in military action. Looking Kant’s deontological ethics a few things to consider‚ pure reason implies universal laws do not contradict. Kant says in Groundwork of Metaphysic Of Morals “act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” (421) Another important point in Kant’s ethics states‚ "there remains law‚ namely to promote his happiness not from inclination
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In the article‚ “The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender”‚ Asta discusses how and why sex and gender are conferred properties. According to Asta‚ a conferred property is one that is “dependent on human thoughts‚ attitudes and practices.” (p.59) A property that is attributed by a person’s judgement onto something or someone is said to be conferred. Asta states that for a property to be conferred‚ it must meet five criteria. Firstly‚ one must decide what property is being conferred‚ for example‚ crime is
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Immanuel Kant’s Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics is a hard read‚ but filled with lots of ideas and meanings. Some of the main ideas of this reading were concerned with moral law‚ and duty to oneself. Kant says that morality should be judged and analyzed first before being implemented into certain situations. Any moral law that we create influences the way we think and act towards others. What I think he was saying is that every human being has the potential to create their own morality‚ but
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Hero of Alexandria Born: c. 10 AD Died: c. 70 AD Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Religion: Pagan Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Mathematician Nationality: Ancient Rome Executive summary: Metrica Hero of Alexandria (sometimes Heron)‚ Greek geometer and writer on mechanical and physical subjects‚ probably flourished in the second half of the 1st century. This is the more modern view‚ in contrast to the earlier theory most generally accepted‚ according to which he flourished
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In his work "Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals" Kant explores the question of morality and outlines its main principles. In the Part II of his work Kant reveals what morality is‚ as well as what it is not through discussing its origin and defines morality as a type of imperative (a commanding sentence). Kant starts his reflections from making a claim that morality can in no way emanate from experience and that there has never been an experience of purely moral actions‚ because actions base
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however‚ never directly addressed because same sex relations were considered vulgar and socially unacceptable in the 19th century. Throughout his novel‚ Lord Henry criticizes the current culture’s lack of acceptance and glorifies the ancient Greek Hellenistic culture‚ where homoeroticism was socially accepted‚ common‚ and frequently occurred often between adolescent boys and older men. In Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ the allusion of Hellenism- in reference to the peculiar fixation Lord Henry exhibits
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Study Guide: Lesson 7 Introducing Metaphysics Lesson Overview Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals with questions of reality. Since it deals with literally everything that exists‚ it is perhaps the broadest branch of philosophy. However‚ we will briefly spend time in this area. In this lesson‚ we will introduce some of the questions that we seek to answer in metaphysics as well as some basic metaphysical terminology you will need to master as we discuss metaphysical issues. We
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March 2014 (UTC)MM Metaphysics Metaphysics however (derived from the Greek words "ta meta ta physika biblia") - meaning ’the book that follows the physics book’. It was the way students referred to a specific book in the works of Aristotle‚ and it was a book on First Philosophy. (The assumption that the word means "beyond physics" is misleading) Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the study of "first principles" and "being" (ontology). In other words‚ Metaphysics is the study of
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“All men by nature desire understanding.” This is how Aristotle opens his famous Metaphysics‚ one of the greatest philosophical works ever produced. The thirst for knowledge has always occupied Western man at least since the time of Thales‚ and even though many different views and opinions about what knowledge is and how it can be gained have abounded throughout Western philosophy up to this very day‚ the fact that so many men have dedicated their lives to seeking knowledge on all sort of different
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