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    Abortion- Should it be legalised or not in Mauritius? Abortion means the termination of pregnancy before its completion. Abortion medically exists in two major forms. 1. The SPONTANEOUS abortion‚ which is defined as the termination of pregnancy without any medical or criminal interference. 2. MEDICAL abortion‚ which means the termination of pregnancy under medical interference. Our concern whether abortion should be legalised or not‚ is mainly related to MEDICAL abortion. This is the subject

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    Essay One topic that I feel very strongly about is the pro-choice movement. Many women who are pro-choice and support medical and surgical abortions are extremely criticized. Many people fail to realize that having an abortion is not necessarily a bad thing. Abortions can change someone’s life for the better in many ways. Many women that get abortions are not in the proper place to take care of a child. Although a woman can give a child up for adoption‚ the foster care system is not always the

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    Abortion should be illegal. Plan as that. Until we dig a little deeper. When I started this paper I was determined not to find anything that I agreed with. I was surprised to find that I agreed with several different reasonable abortions. There are many reasons that still feel that abortion should still be illegal‚ but there are many exceptions to this rule. Why I feel that abortion should be illegal‚ is because my personal beliefs are that a life becomes a living thing at conception. This is

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    are almost identical when it comes to their views on some moral issues. In regards to euthanasia‚ Kant and Catholicism have different reasons‚ yet their views are the same in that they say euthanasia is wrong. To find whether or not Kant and Catholics agree or disagree‚ there must first be a consensus on whether euthanasia is the same as killing someone. As defined by Webster’s dictionary‚ to

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    Kant International Relations

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    How "realistic" is Kantian "empirical realism"? Mainly by way of commentary on passages from the Analytic of Principles and Appendix to the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason‚ Abela offers‚ first‚ the "priority-of-judgment" view: "Kant...banish[es] the idea of any epistemic intermediary between belief and the world" (35); "there is nothing outside judgment...that informs‚ constrains‚ or ultimately grounds objectively valid judgment" (139-40). The ultimate ground is simply the totality of one’s

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    Immanuel Kant Deontology

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    we have towards another person‚ a group or society as a whole. In this sense‚ deontology is concerned with the intrinsic properties of actions‚ not their end result. Immanuel Kant is arguably the most famous advocate of modern deontology. According to Kant‚ moral law is synthetic apriori and took an absolutist approach. Kant argued that since everyone possesses the capacity to reason and has a conscience‚ it would be possible for all people to arrive at an understanding of moral truths without the

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    Hume Versus Kant

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    Hume and Kant offered two differing views on morality. Hume’s philosophy regarding moral theory came from the belief that reason alone can never cause action. Desire or thoughts cause action. Because reason alone can never cause action‚ morality is rooted in us and our perception of the world and what we want to gain from it. Virtue arises from acting on a desire to help others. Hume’s moral theory is therefore a virtue-centered morality rather than the natural-law morality‚ which saw morality as

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    their families provide moral justification for the poor work conditions‚ and low wages that sweatshop labor provides? German philosopher Immanuel Kant would argue that there must be changes made in the politics of sweatshops to improve there conditions. Using his idea of the “Categorical Imperative” and treating people as “valuable in themselves” Kant would not completely take away the opportunity for these people to support themselves working in factories but make it a more humane system. Utilitarian

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    Universal Law and The Formula of the End in Itself. The first formulation is best described by the following statement‚ “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.” (Kant‚ 1785‚ 1993). What does this mean? A maxim is the fundamental rule of conduct or your moral belief upon which you chose to act. A universal law is a law that everyone must follow regardless of the outcome. How do we determine if the maxim can

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    between what is morally right and wrong thing to do. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) outlined in his book Groundworks of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). “reason tells us what we ought to do‚ and when we obey our own reason‚ only then are we truly free" (President and Harvard‚ 2011). Kant describes a situation where in life one should do the right thing not for appearances‚ but because doing the right thing is the morally correct thing to do. Kant dictates that there is a fundamental principle of ethics‚

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