A CRITICAL STUDY OF VIRTUE ETHICS IN ARISTOTLE AND KANT Aristotle was the first western thinker to divide philosophy into branches which are still recognizable today: logic‚ metaphysics‚ and natural philosophy‚ philosophy of mind‚ ethics and politics‚ rhetoric; he made major contributions in all these fields. He was born in Stagira‚ a city of northern Greece in 384 BC. His father Nicomachus was a doctor at the court of Amyntas of Macedon‚ who preceded Philip‚ the conqueror of much of Greece. Aristotle
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not we should legalize drugs. Many feel drug use is immoral‚ while others feel it is their natural right to choose to use drugs or not. I would like to discuss the history of drug reform and the moral perspective of natural law‚ utilitarianism and Kantian ethics over this pertinent issue that we face in the United States today. The first drug laws were established in 1914 through the Harrison Act which did not make drugs illegal‚ but imposed a tax on them. This ban was not due to the immorality of
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Moral Absolutism – The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a novel based in a post-apocalyptic world. It revolves around the life of a father and a son who are struggling to survive. Everything around them is destroyed‚ filled with ash and stripped of life yet the two continue to move south‚ towards the sea hoping for better days to come. Their lives are lived in a constant state of fear. Every day spent scavenging for food as they are constantly moving‚ trying to stay unnoticed
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Sara‚ a 28 years old female‚ was admitted to the intensive care unit post suicidal attempt. She has been considered as being in a persistent vegetative state for the past 2 years. Although her brain stem was severely effected‚ her heart was beating regularly and she can breathe spontaneously. Sara was completely dependent on the PEG tube for feeding. The doctors responsible for Sara’s case decided that the life was with no value for Sara and the PEG tube should be withdrawn. Sara’s husband and her
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support this claim‚ is that a government may rightly restrict an individual’s liberty to prevent harm to others. Although this is in violation with an individual’s freedom of thought and speech. In this paper‚ I will present two arguments from Kantian ethics and Douglas Husak that refute this idea‚ and further show that heroin and cocaine should not be kept illegal. Again in "Against the legalization of drugs"‚ Wilson argues that drugs‚ such as heroin and cocaine‚ lead users to harm others in
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Two of the most well-known philosophers of ethics‚ Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill‚ possess distinct views on the founding principles of morality and justice. Kant contends that morality relies on autonomy and kindness‚ whereas Mill bases the theory on the ideal of happiness‚ or utility. This essay aims to clarify Kant’s view of autonomy and goodness‚ compare it to Mill’s utilitarianism‚ and analyze their divergent perspectives on drug legalization and decriminalization in the context of their
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Immanuel Kant Summery: There are two faculties of the mind: theoretical reason and practical reason. Theoretical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What can I know?"‚ while practical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What ought I to do?". For Kant‚ practical reason issues a duty to respect its law. That is‚ morality is not rooted in consequences (consequentialism)‚ but rather in sheer duty (deontological ethics). For Kant‚ practical reason issues a "categorical imperative"
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John Locke and Immanuel Kant: Comparative analysis of epistemological doctrines We are here concerned with the relationship between the human mind‚ somatic-sensory perceptions‚ objects of perception‚ and claims of knowledge arising from their interaction‚ through the philosophies of John Locke and Immanuel Kant. Confounding the ability to find solid epistemological ground‚ philosophers have‚ generally speaking‚ debated whether ‘what’ we know is prima facie determined by the objective‚ as-they-are
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David Bélanger ETHICS MAJOR ESSAY OUTLINE- OPINION ON PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION Introduction: Public displays of affection are demonstrations of physical intimacy in public. * Vaquera‚ Elizabeth‚ and Grace Kao. "Private And Public Displays Of Affection Among Interracial And Intra-Racial Adolescent Couples."Social Science Quarterly (Blackwell Publishing Limited) 86.2 (2005): 484-508. Academic Search Premier. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. * Richter‚ Duncan. Why be good? Oxford‚ New York: Oxford
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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who‚ like several philosophers at the time‚ contemplated and wrote about morality‚ specifically the origin of human morals. Kant‚ unlike these other thinkers‚ believed that morality and religion‚ two topics that were typically paired together when speaking about morality‚ should be kept separate because they did not belong together. Kant believed that the only way to determine what was morally right and wrong could only be found by engaging reason‚ not religion
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