VOL 18 NO -235 REGD NO DA 1589 | Dhaka‚ Thursday June 30 2011 Moral values‚ ethics and philosophy M S Siddiqui The dream of a child starts with a stereo type suggestion from parents that the baby will be a doctor - engineer. The baby has no other option to dream of being doctor or engineer. Our education system was framed by the British rulers to create civil servants to serve their purpose. They had created dreams of civil service. As a legacy of the British and the Pakistani system we
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t Kant: Critique of Pure Reason There have been many philosophical perspectives and debates held throughout the centuries on the foundations of human knowledge. The stand points that both Descartes and Locke have differ and both of these philosophers’ perspectives have contributed to the rational and empirical debate about the foundations of human knowledge. Descartes’ understanding of the foundations of human knowledge takes on a rational viewpoint and has lead to Locke’s response of an empirical
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creativity or really skilled at something in general. While in philosophy‚ Kant defines genius as follow‚ ‘Genius is the talent (natural gift) that gives the rule to art [...] Genius is the inborn predisposition of the mind through which nature gives the rule to art’; ‘Beautiful art must necessarily be considered as art of genius’. (§46) To Kant‚ it is like beautiful art cannot live without genius‚ because beautiful art is the art of genius. As Kant mentioned‚ genius cannot be imitated‚ it is a special
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Kant: Reasons and Causes‚ Morality and Religion Kant was a deontologist who believed that knowledge was created by the mind‚ not external factors; because of this he wanted to unite reason and experience. Humanity’s frail nature was the human condition according to Kant‚ their struggle to make moral decisions and do the right thing can only be solved by employing reason and his three maxims when decision making. Kant’s diagnoses the human condition as human’s frailty and impurity when
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and penalized with a loss of draft choices. Have the "selfless" team-spirited Patriots taken an ethical hit? Should fans no longer look up to Belichick and owner Bob Kraft as role models of the right way to build a sports dynasty? Or is this the moral equivalent of a parking ticket in a sport where competitive intelligence is as vital as a healthy quarterback? Getting an edge over the competition is inherent in sports. Are there instances when stealing signs is OK? Does that apply to other types
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“Kant how are imperatives possible” In this passage Kant is stating is believes about imperatives by saying that in order to make a morally correct decision‚ there is a universal law that complies with all humans that can rationally think ‚ this law is not based upon humans own desires. Kant imperatives deal with universality consequently he stated that it is immoral if a rule cannot be made into something that all humankind can follow. For example if I say "I will never keep my promises"‚ this
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passionately debated subjects of controversy in the United State. Since the early decades of the 20th century‚ abortion was used as a measure of limiting families to a manageable size. In the past‚ due to the lack of knowledge‚ many families usually gave birth to a lot of children that they could not afford to raise‚ which is why abortion was abused in early times as an extreme measure of birth control to avoid further poverty to families. Today‚ many abortions are given to women under the age of 22. There
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Explain the difference between transcendental realism (using Leibniz and Hume as examples) and Kant’s transcendental idealism. Why does Kant call his turn to transcendental idealism a “Copernican Revolution”. Transcendental realism claims that the world exists independently of human subjectivity. It also claims that the human thought or perception has no influence and does not effect the way world exists and cannot be interpreted by the way people interpret it. Transcendental realism relies
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In The Groundwork for the metaphysic of Morals‚ it is formulated that Kant bases his theory of morality off the groundwork of metaphysics. The idea behind the science of metaphysics brings about the a priori and/or pure necessary truths. Any existence of anything empirical is immoral which only abandons one’s reason and intentions‚ which are the foundation of their duty to gain good will. Good intensions bring out good will. As Kant presents the four reasons of all actions‚ he believes that one gains
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466-93-4603 Kant pp 33-48 Kant’s argument that an act out of duty can not be in conflict with itself or with any other will acting out of duty derives from the concept he puts forth of the internal principle. A will cannot conflict itself if it determines itself a priori. By determining its morals before the benefit of experience‚ it determines itself simply that it exists as it is. Intuitively‚ anything pure cannot conflict with itself just as the idea of good cannot conflict with itself
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