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    Immanuel Kant

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    obligations and agreements where in today’s modern era‚ he’s being taught about to students around the globe. But during the 18th century Hume wasn’t the only great thinker during that time that had theories concerning science and how it works. Immanuel Kant‚ a German philosopher also brought forth theories that were as impactful to the world as Hume’s were. To understand Hume’s view on the world‚ one must first understand how cause and effect works as its basic definition and then how Hume sees it.

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    Aristotle vs. Plato I believe Aristotle and Plato are both great thinkers. Aristotle and Plato both give good evidence to what they believe. There are some things that Plato says that I may or may not agree on‚ and same goes with Aristotle. In this essay I am going to prove why Aristotle and Plato both have an influence upon my thinking. In order for me to prove that I must understand Plato’s thinking‚ and Aristotle’s thinking. I am going to analyze their different philosophical perspectives such

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    Knowledge vs. True Belief The discussion of true belief and knowledge in the Meno develops in the analogy of the traveling men; one who knows the correct path to Larissa and the other who has a true belief of the correct path to Larissa (Meno 97a-c). Socrates tells Meno that if both men led to the same result‚ then true belief is no more useful than knowledge and both beneficial (Meno 97c). This comparison changes in book five of the Republic when Socrates says an ideal state must have a philosopher-king

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    Kant On Rehabilitation

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    Kant argues that to “act in such a way that you always treat humanity‚ whether in your own person or in the person of any other‚ never simply as a means but always at the same time as an end” (O’Neill 167). Using people to end crime is wrong because the

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    Kant And Superman

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    Kant: No Mao! War can never be morally right. When Superman decided to fight Luther that is when he committed an immoral act. I think that Superman is a moral character because all rational beings would do the same and use their superpowers to save others. Mao nods to Kant and reaches to the middle of the table to grab the book. Mao: *whispers to himself: Superman: Red Son” * Darwin: What did you say Mao? Mao: I just realized that my communist party was symbolized by the Red Sun and the title

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    Kant the Sublime

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    how critical thought exists within an infinite amount of creativity with no principles but in search of them. Lyotard understands the Kantian sublime as a way to comply with the standards that critically analyze postmodernism using deconstruction. Kant differentiated the sublime between the vastness and greatness and the dynamic sublime. The vastness sublime is so great we can’t just use our senses like we normally do; it requires us to heighten our senses beyond comprehension. The dynamic sublime

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    Kant Rationalism

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    empiricism‚ and why both “experience and reason” are important for “…constructing our knowledge of the world” (Chaffee‚ 6.5‚ Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)). Kant wanted to bring together both the different thought schools of rationalism and empiricism because he believed people could not have one without the other; we can’t have reason without experience and vice versa. Kant wanted to accomplish this because he was “…concerned with constructing a metaphysical framework for the ‘self’ that [would] account

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    PLATO THE REPUBLIC

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    Sub areas of philosophy Metaphysics – what is? Epistemology – what can I know? Ethics – what ought to be? Logic- what is good reasoning? Plato Student of Socrates There are no recorded teaching of Socrates Plato three different periods- early middle and late Middle- what is ethics and what is morality? Morality- give back to what is due. Is morality the following of a rule or is it something more involved? Do you really achieve obedience by punishing? Thrasymuchas- morality is

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    Kant: Goodness

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    Kant: Goodness The philosopher I used is Immanuel Kant. He was very practical in his thinking of goodness. A quote of his was "I ought‚ therefore I can". His view was good anything is under good will . He believed good will was the primary goodness‚ good in its purest form‚ and that it couldn’t be corrupted. Good feelings and good intentions and actions can be interpreted in different ways; man can corrupt these things into evil...even though it still might be good in that man’s eyes

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    Plato

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    1 Towards the beginning of this passage‚ Socrates gets Laches to agree to a new definition of courage. What is it? (5 marks) In the beginning of the passage Socrates gets Laches to agree that wise endurance is the definition of courage “Socrates: so according to your account‚ wise endurance will be courage. Laches: so it seems”. 2 What conclusion do Socrates and Laches reach at the end of the passage? Why might Laches be surprised by this conclusion? (5 marks) By the end of the passage

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