Among Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) most influential contributions to philosophy is his development of the transcendental argument. In Kant’s conception‚ an argument of this kind begins with a compelling premise about our thought‚ experience‚ or knowledge‚ and then reasons to a conclusion that is a substantive and unobvious presupposition and necessary condition of this premise. The crucial steps in this reasoning are claims to the effect that a subconclusion or conclusion is a presupposition and necessary
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3.1 The Incompatibility Argument: Relational Understanding of Self According to Roger Ames‚ “transplanting” human rights to China was doomed to failure because of the incompatibility between Chinese values and the Western human rights concept.36 Historically‚ he argues‚ the concept of rights did not naturally evolve in China‚ which leads him to portray Western human rights efforts as imperialistic. Indeed‚ the Western concepts of “rights” may indeed have posed a problem for Chinese society‚ when
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the trait of truth-fulfillment. Murdoch undermines literature on the account of its broad artistic structure that vaguely delivers intended message‚ and must be interpreted to understand the directive aim. The contrary to philosophy. In moving her argument towards the conclusion that the stylistic writing of literature can’t have a place in philosophy. I will be arguing against
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attacks against the “unreasonable”‚ “control fanatics” of the gun control lobby. The author’s bias leaves the reader uninformed about more viable counter-arguments to the rhetoric of the anti-gun sector‚ misrepresents the arguments of the opposing viewpoint‚
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According to an argument in BBC‚ it states that‚ “Scientists experiment on animals for a host of different reasons‚ including basic research to explore how organisms function‚ investigating potential treatments for human disease‚ and safety and quality control testing of drugs‚ devices and other products. Its proponents point to the long list of medical advances made possible with the help of animal research” (Katsnelson). I believe that this first argument is the strongest because it offers several
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my peers that they are very uncomfortable with the Peter Singers ideas on donating all money beyond what they need to charity. Although they did think that it was a good idea‚ they didn’t necessarily believe that it was a moral decision. Of the arguments that I heard against Singer‚ and I did hear many‚ I don’t think that they are created equal. I’ll mention three in detail and some justifications that I heard that aren’t as relevant. First‚ Zach takes a view of freedom‚ that’s to say that he believes
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Clarke begins his argument by asserting the obvious--that based on experience‚ all of the beings that surround us today do exist. These beings‚ encountered based on one’s experience‚ are dependent on a prior cause. In other words‚ everything that exists must have been caused by something else that also exists or has existed; and for something finite to exist today‚ such as any being in this world‚ it would mean that there must have been something that has existed since infinity. According to Clarke
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Paper 1 (A) The Ring of Gyges Argument The bottom line of Thrasymarchus’ argument is that justice is the advantage of the stronger. Socrates agrees that being just is advantageous. He continues to persuade Thrasymarchus‚ however‚ that justice is not only advantageous for the stronger‚ but for everyone. Glaucon refuses to accept Thrasymarchus’ capitulation to Socrates’ arguments. Glaucon’s view is that Socrates has only highlighted the positive consequences of being just and not the intrinsic value
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The way I see the design argument explained by Cleanthes is how everything in the universe is designed. Meaning everything that is designed was designed by a creator. It didn’t just appear out of thin air. Something or someone made it become possible. Cleanthes also brings up the analogy that the earth resembles a machine. He explains how everything about the earth had to be put together perfectly in order for the earth to functions like it does. Just like how for machines to work‚ every small detail
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Nagel’s argument is that death is bad to cause individual power by his consenting to directed against views from the beginning‚ and carefully establish the boundaries of his argument. For example‚ Nagel decides to leave aside the complex debate over whether we are "immortal" in some fashion - and define death as being the absence of any "conscious survival" .Similarly‚ he is equally careful to restrict the valuation of life to one’s subjectivity instead of viewing it in an objective sense. This removes
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