philosopher Immanuel Kant famously stated that lying was unequivocally immoral even in extreme cases like protecting innocents from a murderer. He believed this approach was implied by the moral system he developed. Later philosophers‚ however‚ work have pointed out that his metaphysical framework does not actually imply a rule this strict and Kant‚ of all people‚ made a simple logical misstep. The question of what Kant thought about lying depends on whether we are talking about Kant the man or his philosophy
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Name: Huynh Thi Kim Tuyen MSSV: 01203269 CHAPTER 6 Class: 12000302 Major: Chinese_English _TOPIC: TWO ARGUMENT PARAGRAPHS FOR AGAINST GLOBALIZATION._ During recent decades‚ globalization is one of the noticeable problems in the world. Globalization brings many advantages as well as disadvantages with many respects such as the social‚ economic‚ cultural‚ political‚ technological‚ healthy‚ educational and so on. There are many good things which globalization brings. First of all‚ globalization
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Lord Krishna lays down two important requirements for a person to understand the most secret knowledge about the God‚ namely the uncarping spirit‚ and the faith. The absence of cavil‚ or the uncarping spirit is a prerequisite for gaining an intimate‚ immediate and personal experience of the omnipresent reality of the absolute. Every spiritual aspirant must necessarily cultivate this quality. It is a divine characteristic‚ which makes a man’s personality pure and lucent. Carping nature is a
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Be it Resolved that…tactical nuclear weapons could have been justified in the Korean War. Remember that two arguments per side must be based on scientific research and two arguments based on geopolitics or moral arguments Affirmative 1. Pillar: North Koreans today would not be deprived of social freedom under the ruling of Kim Jong-un if nuclear weapons were to be dropped in the Korean War. a. Evidence: Those who have evidenced the average lifestyle in North Korea say that life is extremely difficult
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evidence for our selfishness‚ our inclusion of considerations for all earthlings exists not as a protection against the insecurity of our arguments being considered intrinsically inconsistent but because of the obvious fallacies involved with anthropocentricism. There is no evidence that indicates that we are the most significant species on the planet‚ in fact much evidence indicates against this assertion. Therefore‚ we must operate by being considerate towards the biological and evolutionary demands
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The cosmological arguments are inductive arguments based on an ‘a posteriori’ premise‚ which‚ despite having been introduced many years ago‚ continue to be prevalent today. An early example of the argument is within ‘Timaeus’‚ in which Plato proposed the idea that anything that has been created must be created by a cause. These arguments are intended to prove the existence of the God of Classical Theism by explaining that God must be the first cause of the universe; the being setting the world into
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Heidegger‚ Kant‚ and the Ontological Argument In the introduction to The Basic Problems of Phenomenology‚ Martin Heidegger explains that throughout the history of philosophy‚ there has been many discoveries of the “domains of being” viz.‚ “nature‚ space‚ and soul”.1 Yet‚ none of these discoveries could be understood in a way that explains “their specific being.”2 As an example‚ Heidegger interprets this problem as the reason Plato understood why the soul‚ along with its logos‚ was a different
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Factors For and Against Marijuana should be legalized in the United States. Reasons for legalization (ranked from strongest to weakest) 1. Medical benefits for terminal illnesses such as cancer. 2. Police and court resources would be freed to pursue more serious crimes. 3. The FDA could regulate the quality and safety of the drug. 4. This drug has fewer side effects that most currently legal narcotics. 5. Legalization would lower prices‚ thereby reducing crimes such as theft. 6
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Main Rules of ICBN 1. According to binomial system name of any species consists of two names (i) Generic name - Name of genus (ii) Specific name - Trival name Eg. Solanum tuberosum (Potato) ↓ ↓ Generic name Specific name Mangifera indica (Mango) ↓ ↓ Generic name Specific name 2. In plant nomenclature (ICBN)‚ tautonyms
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RULE AGAINST PERPETUITY INTRODUCTION The rules of law affecting perpetuities are based upon considerations of public policy. Although the principle of private ownership requires that an owner of property is to have power to dispose as he thinks fit‚ either during life or on death‚ of his whole interest in the property he owns‚ public policy requires that the power should not be abused. Accordingly from early times‚ the law has discouraged dispositions of property‚ which either impose
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