PART A Immanuel Kant’s essays Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason led to his critique Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone. In Critique of Pure Reason Kant discusses the dispute between rationalism and empiricism. The empiricists argued that all ideas are derived from sensation‚ and that objects of sensation are the only proper objects of knowledge. The rationalists argued that some ideas are not derived from sensation but are instead innate to reason‚ and that these
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Influence of celebrity endorsers in the perfume industry on consumers Nowadays when you look at the advertisements of perfumes‚ there are very often celebrities promoting the perfume. This new trend has kept rising in the past years in many industries. Indeed‚ companies are trying more than ever to catch the eye of the consumer and celebrity endorsement is one of the most efficient ways to do this in the perfume industry. Brands have many advantages when they decide to be endorsed by a celebrity
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Abortion The main pro-life against abortion argument goes like this: Killing a human life is wrong and a fetus is a human life; therefore‚ killing a fetus is wrong. However‚ the debate is always surrounded by the second premise which is: at what point of a pregnancy is a fetus a human being. As medical science and technology progress‚ the line might shift back and forth. For the sake of this argument‚ I will neglect the second premise; I will say that a fetus is a human being at the time of conception
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Elements of Moral Philosophy‚ illuminate Kant’s first and second Categorical Imperatives. While Kant claims the formulations are equivalent‚ they offer differing guidelines on how the Categorical Imperative is operated. Although the formulations share the same basis‚ the difference regarding how the formulations are adhered‚ is a large distinction difficult to ignore‚ and renders the two versions as separate subjects. The binding trait between Kant’s first and second Categorical Imperatives is
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Kant published the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781. Kant’s goal was to determine the limits of pure reason which means that he wants to know what reason alone can determine without the help of the senses or any other faculties. Kant is encouraged by Hume’s skepticism to doubt metaphysics existence. Kant makes a differentiation between priori and posteriori knowledge and between analytic and synthetic judgments. A posteriori knowledge is knowledge from experience and a priori knowledge is the necessary
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To Abort or Not to Abort The great debate about abortion is ever raging in today’s society. Each opposing side believes that their choice is the correct one. Supporters of the pro-choice believe that the woman has a right to terminate her pregnancy no matter the circumstance. Pro-life advocates argue that the baby’s life is the most important thing. Abortion is murder‚ no matter what stage of pregnancy you are in. The only reason a woman should have the choice‚ is if her life is in danger or other
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Strictly from a Kantian point of view‚ there is absolutely no way that a lie can ever be justified. It is a complete violation of humanity; it manipulates someone‚ effectively treating them as a means rather than an end‚ into believing something for whatever reason. If everyone lied whenever they felt like it‚ society as we know it would collapse. But‚ on the other hand‚ society would be a grim‚ inhumane place if everyone cooperated in killing the innocent. While it can be argued that the overall
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In Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals‚ he sets forth to explain the relationship between actions and their moral worth. In this paper‚ I will begin by explaining what determines the moral worth of actions based on the three types of motivations‚ distinguishing particularly between actions from duty versus in accordance with duty. Then‚ I will explain the seeming contradiction set forth in Kant’s examples of actions from duty. Finally‚ I will describe how Kant believes that most actions
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What makes Immanuel Kant’s theory of moral so interesting is that it uses logical reasoning. He does not believe a set of rules that come from a divine being are correct or even come close to being right that reasoning can achieve. Why should something that claims to be all knowing create a sort of commandments if that being knows that not all humans will follow those codes of conduct? A part of Kant’s theory that intrigues me is his categorical imperative‚ and the two well know formulations of it
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The Grounding of Kant’s Ethics in the Critique of Pure Reason Kant’s pure concepts of reason‚ i.e. the transcendental ideas‚ interact with and govern all use of understanding in experience1. Kant lays a foundation that argues that objects obtained from pure reason originate in logic’s speculative capacity‚ and allow for inferences to be made for the sake of experience. The Critique of Pure Reason dissects this dichotomy at length‚ and claims that there is a necessary dependence between empirical
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