Kant philosophy has contributed in development of "pure" moral philosophy‚ a "metaphysics of morals" that is based on the concepts of reason‚ not on empirical observations. According to his philosophy moral obligations are applicable to all human beings as it applies not only for particular person in particular situation‚ but also to all rational beings in all circumstances. The principle of humanity is not borrowed from experience as this is a universal principle and this applies to all rational
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with morals and politics. Human nature is the basic substance shared by human beings‚ and is thus important in making sense of society and all its complexities along with the individual man and his liberties. Two prominent philosophers‚ Rousseau and Kant‚ express conjectures on human nature in their essays. Rousseau focuses on man in the untainted state of nature. He believes that the lack of knowledge and morality in savage man is better than the evils resulting from social inequalities‚ insisting
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Antigone‚ like Kant‚ is governed by a philosophy of duty‚ but one that is very different from Kant’s. Antigone’s duty is to the gods. Unlike Kant who follows a sort of subjective moral law‚ Antigone’s moral law is far less arbitrary. She is obligated to uphold her family duties regardless of the circumstances. I believe this is what separates Antigone from both Mill and Kant‚ as well as Smith. Her actions are independent of circumstances. There
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Abstract Arthur Rothstein was born in New York in July 17‚ 1915. He is recognized as one of America’s premier photojournalists. He died of cancer in November 11‚ 1985 in New Rochelle‚ New York. He left the photography art with horror and makes everybody proud of his works during his career until now days. The life of Arthur Rothstein Being an amateur or professional photographer is be able to: Capture a memory that you can have forever; See the beauty in the every day;
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and Aristotle vs. Kant When comparing between the philosophies of St. Thomas Aquinas/Aristotle and those of Immanuel Kant when regarding moral behavior‚ there are some very fundamental differences. On one hand‚ you have Kant’s autonomous perspective on behavior morality‚ in which you give the law to yourself. On the other hand‚ you have the heteronomy views of Aristotle and Aquinas which concludes that one can measure their conduct against an external force. Kant’s views can very shortly summarized
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Arthur Andersen’s Troubles 1. Arthur Anderson (AA) should have been able to help prevent to some extent the Enron disaster‚ however‚ they either missed or ignored Enron’s manipulations allowing the fraud to continue as long as it did. AA contributed to the disaster by approving the structure of many Special Purpose Entities (SPE)‚ which Enron used for off-balance sheet financing. The SPEs did not meet the requirements of an independent company and should have been consolidated with Enron’s
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Assess Hume’s response for rejecting miracles (35 marks) David Hume puts forward two separate but very closely related arguments against miracles. Hume argues that the probability of miracles actually happening is so low that is irrational and illogical to believe that miracles do occur. Hume is an empiricist‚ meaning that he emphasises experience and observations of the world as the way of learning new things. He argues that when investigating any story of a miracle‚ evidence can be collected‚
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Understanding‚ David Hume argues that what we consider to be causal relations are simply associations made out of habit and hold no necessity of truth. Though he acknowledges that philosophy did not yet have the tools to place necessity on causal relations‚ in the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics‚ Immanuel Kant argues that it is possible to do so. By reworking the frame of metaphysics‚ introducing synthetic‚ a priori knowledge‚ Kant avoids coming to Hume’s skeptical conclusions. Hume believes that
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Is Eddie responsible for his own death in the book « A view from the bridge » by Arthur Miller ? In order to understand to what extent Eddie is responsible for his own death‚ it’s necessary to consider which elements led Eddie to be killed by Marco. Throughout the story told by Arthur Miller‚ we can see that the behaviour of Eddie plays a role in his death. He could have had a common life but the tragedy comes from the combination of different events which are linked. The most important element
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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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