only if our maxim became a universal law. (Midterm‚ P2) Maxim is the reason that some made a choice in a certain situation‚ and by looking at this maxim universally and reversely‚ we could determine rather this maxim is a universal law or not. In his second categorical imperative‚ we have to focused on rather the person making the decision is treating people just as a mean or not; which means is the decision maker treating others just like a tool or a free human. In this case‚ the maxim is “is it
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protagonists Edgar Rochester and Maxim De Winter. Du Maurier seeks to justify why Maxim killed his first wife Rebecca‚ in order to prevent her illegitimate child from becoming the heir to Manderly. The novel is resolved when it emerges that Rebecca was not pregnant‚ but extremely ill with cancer and she had in fact manipulated Maxim into killing her. Bronte also attempts to justify Rochester’s crimes. Mrs Danvers reveals Rebecca ‘despised all men’ and this prompts some pity for Maxim because it is then clear
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are written and number your answers. Use the following maxim: In order to maximize my pleasure‚ I will take recreational drugs whenever I feel like it. 1.Explain why this maxim is self-defeating‚ i.e.could not be imagined as a universal law for all rational beings. This should include what a world would look like in which all rational beings followed the maxim and why you could not achieve the purpose or end of the maxim in such a world. Kant thinks that we are not really in
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very beginning by maintaining the narrator’s anonymity‚ as only Maxim knows the narrator’s name. The quest for the narrator to find her true identity is simply the whole subject of the book Rebecca. In the beginning‚ the narrator seems to be lost in the world. She works as a companion for a rich and ignorant woman. Then she meets the man she will marry named Maxim de Winter‚ who will forever change the narrator’s life forever. Maxim asked the narrator to marry him after only a short time of knowing
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Introduction Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics which studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory‚ conversational implicature‚ talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy‚ sociology‚ linguistics and anthropology. Unlike semantics‚ which examines meaning that is conventional or "coded" in a given language‚ pragmatics studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on structural and linguistic
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However‚ when she marries Maxim De Winter her life totally changes. She enters a new and unknown world as she becomes part of the elite class of society. She also has to cope with the many responsibilities and expectations imposed on her as the wife of the famous Maxim De Winter. This experience changes her into a worldly‚ more confident woman‚ but however this is a gradual development. For example‚ early in the novel‚ the narrator has unrealistic romantic fantasies of her and Maxim. However‚ after Maxim’s
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<br><center>I wrote this paper in High school. It got an A. With use of this essay cite works to "Kristin’s People Places and Things" Tewksbury‚ MA: Free paper Inc.‚ 1999.</center> <br> <br> <br>Lewis Carroll’s works Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are by many people considered nonsense books for children. Of course‚ they are‚ but they are also much more. Lewis Carroll had a great talent of intertwining nonsense and logic‚ and therefore creating
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religion we must first fathom and deeply understand what he refers to as a maxim. A maxim is‚ in short‚ a universal law meaning that for us they should be considered as a doctrine of what to do and not as a guideline of how to get there. For example‚ and treat this only as an example‚ a maxim would state not to kill an innocent person therefore we conform to this maxim and treat it as a fixed universal rule; Nevertheless‚ this maxim doesn’t tell us or even teach us how we should avoid killing innocent
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should always act on those maxims that do not go beyond one’s capability and at the same time wills these maxims to become universal. 2. One should always treat other people the way he/she would like to be treated‚ that is one would like to be treated as the end and not only as means to this end. 3. Once one sets a maxim he/she should consider him/herself as a member of an ideal kingdom of ends where he/she can be either the one who sets the maxim or the one on whom the maxim will apply (published in
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conventions of the romantic genre?” In Rebecca du Maurier appears to conform to the conventions of the romantic genre however‚ du Maurier has also subverted the genre of romance through her representation of the relationship between the narrator and Maxim and the structure of the novel. She has also incorporated of elements of the gothic genre and the psychological thriller. On the surface Rebecca appears to demonstrate the conventions of the romantic genre. The storyline includes a heroine‚ who
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