Immanuel Kant famously made a distinction between hypothetical and categorical imperatives.Imagine that someone told you “John is a good serial killer.” Inherent in between twointerpretations of good. Either John is very good at killing people‚ he is an effective serial killer‚or John is a vigilante serial killer who only kills other serial killers. The first of these is ahypothetical good‚ while the second is a categorical good. A hypothetical is an if-then statement.In this case‚ we mean if you
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Engineering)‚ a functional requirement defines a function of a system or its component. A function is described as a set of inputs‚ the behavior‚ and outputs (see also software). Functional requirements may be calculations‚ technical details‚ data manipulation and processing and other specific functionality that define what a system is supposed to accomplish. Behavioral requirements describing all the cases where the system uses the functional requirements are captured in use cases. Functional requirements
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“Few formulas in philosophy have been so widely accepted and variously interpreted as Kant’s injunction to treat humanity as an end in itself”(Hill‚ 38). The categorical imperative formula I have chosen is the humanity formula. The humanity formula is the second formulation categorical imperative of the three formulas Kant come up with. This formulation states that we should never act in such a way that we treat humanity‚ whether in ourselves or in others‚ as means only. This formula also says that
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and adjust our personalities to conform to them (Lozanov‚ 1978). One result is that we inhibit our learning to conform to these outside limits. The capabilities that we used as children are set aside and no longer used but they are preserved as functional reserves. According to Lozanov people can re-integrate these reserves into the active personality by means of suggestion‚ which increases enormously the ability to learn‚ to remember and to integrate what they learn into their personality. Lozanov
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Bentham’s Utilitarianism vs. Kant’s Categorical Imperative Introduction In this critical response‚ I will consider if Bentham’s Utilitarianism is a better alternative to Kant’s Categorical Imperative‚ and then I will argue that Utilitarianism is a good alternative to Kant’s Categorical Imperative as it is a more realistic view of human morals. Background Explanation The two philosophers that this essay critically analyzes have very different views of human nature. The variation in their views
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Staff General Dennis J. Reimer wrote: “As we reshape the force we will be guided by the Six Imperatives – quality people‚ realistic training‚ proper force mix‚ modernized equipment‚ the world’s best leader development program‚ and updated doctrine. The changes we make to the force will be passed through those six filters to ensure they make sense.” In the complex nature of today’s Army‚ those Six Imperatives translate into 7 such filters‚ Doctrine‚ Organization‚ Training‚ Materiel‚ Leadership‚ Personnel
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Topic: #2 Deontology There are many theories of morality that aim to create criteria for an action’s moral value. Kantian Deontology is a one of those theories. This theory values an action‚ not based on the happiness or pleasure derived from it‚ but the will behind it. Kantian Deontologists do not value happiness and pleasure as intrinsically good because there is nothing good other than a good will- since good will is the motive to act for moral duty. Although Kantian Deontology is logical
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fact agree with what he called the Categorical Imperative. In accordance with the good will aspects Kant’s claims on good will is the only thing that can be considered good without limitation. In this paper I will discuss several situations that I have been involved in where both the Categorical Imperative and a good will have applied to my personal experiences. Before I get started I would like to shed a little more light on the Categorical Imperative that Kant and others viewed as very valuable and
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SUS1501 assignment2 1. State your proposed ac as maxim: “I will take ZAR 620 000 000. 00 (A) when I have done a year’s work (C) in order to get really‚ really rich (E).” 2. Restate this maxim as a universal law: “All people (7 billion of them) will take ZAR 620 000 000. 00 when they have done a year’s work in order to get really‚ really rich.” 3. Ask whether your maxim is conceivable in a world ruled by the universal law: In a world where all 7 billion people earned ZAR 620 000 000.00‚ everything
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safety: the ethical imperative Patient safety: the ethical imperative by Chaini C. Demas A Paper Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for HSA 515 Healthcare Law‚ Policy and Ethics Strayer University Summer 2010 Patient safety: the ethical imperative Patient safety is and should always be the most important aspect a health care provider considers. The article‚ Patient safety: the ethical imperative‚ reports errors found
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