Candide Free-will-agent Determine the course of action Leibniz Cause-effect Nature catastrophe disaster=knowledge Good and bad=moral Third person Good may distance readers from the protagonist/hero Genealogy Chain reaction‚ trace back the origin Disease: syphilisparody of genealogy love and cause and effect become questionable El Dorado The best‚ utopia Good: no material wealth‚ all in agreement‚ knowledge/gallery‚ safe (very hard to reach and surrounded by mountains)‚ open
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According to Kant‚ the fundamental principle of morality must be a categorical‚ rather than a hypothetical imperative‚ because an imperative based on reason alone is one that is a necessary truth‚ is a priori‚ and is one that applies to us because we are rational beings capable of fulfilling our moral obligations. Kant explains this essential truth is how "an action as objectively necessary in itself apart from its relation to a further end". This refers to how if the supreme principle of morality
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Throughout the ages‚ their efforts have been made to define morality. Also attempted to determine what is right and wrong continue to be a challenge. However‚ the real question how do morals affect the life of a person as he goes the life stages. Immanuel Kant‚ says “the human understanding is the source of the general laws of nature that structure all our experience; and that human reason gives itself the moral law‚” Based on his theory morality come from a the experience that a person has doing his lifetime
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The difference between Kant and Aristotle here can be traced to a difference over the nature of the will. For Kant‚ the will seems to be something that can be insulated completely from natural influences and inclinations. It is the only thing for which a person can be said to be completely responsible. And this isolated point of pure responsibility is the only proper subject of moral evaluation and hence esteem. Aristotle‚ on the other hand‚ has no notion of a point (or realm) of pure responsibility
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Animal Testing: The Destruction of Animals Animal testing‚ also known as animal experimentation‚ is the use of non-human animals in experiments and development project‚ usually to determine toxicity‚ dosing and efficacy of drugs before proceeding to human clinical trials (Biology online). These tests are to examine new products‚ such as vaccines‚ shampoos‚ household products‚ cosmetics‚ foods‚ and personal care products on the animals so they are “safer” for the consumer‚ which never is an absolute
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| Case Study Four | S&S Air International? | | | 5/7/2011 | The business world is highly competitive‚ changes quickly and is filled with risks and rewards. The international business world is no different! Things can change on the international stage in the time it takes to get a cup of tea! S&S Air has been in discussions with a dealer in Europe to sell the company’s model known as “The Eagle”. The dealer‚ Amalie Diefenbaker‚ has told S&S Air that she will pay the
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Dear Ms. Robinson‚ How are you doing? I hope all is well. My name is Fadel Nasereddin and I will be attending your humble English class for this school year. To begin with‚ English has‚ and still is‚ one of the subjects which I really direct focus and passion into. It is a major building block in constructing a strong foundation for not only my educational future‚ but my social one as well. From Shakespeare to Aldous Huxley‚ and subsequently Ernest Hemingway‚ the English subject has broadly enhanced
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Professor Bosco World Politics September 27‚ 2013 Hans J. Morgenthau v. Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant and Hans J Morgenthau were pioneers in their separate schools of thought referring to the nature of world politics. Both men contributed to the important debate on how to best decipher how the many different political players of the world interact with each other and why. In Morgenthau ’s Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace‚ he states that politics have
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In 421‚ Kant assets that to be a moral being‚ we can engage in actions or act according the maxim or principle in which that maxim could become by our will a universal law. This maxim or principal is applicable to everyone and I could not be of exception. According to the categorical imperative‚ we must comply with certain duties. Kant draws a distinction between perfect duties and imperfect duties. A perfect duty is a maxim‚ which one must always do. An imperfect duty shall not be ignored‚ but
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following I will commit myself to the above-mentioned question by firstly reconstructing Anselm´s proof of God´s existence and secondly considering his position in the light of the critique put forward by Gaunilo‚ Aquinas and Kant. St. Anselm (1033-1109) was an Italian philosopher and monk who later left his country to become Archbishop of Canterbury. As Anselm firmly believed in God‚ he wanted to prove God´s existence through use of logic and reason and thus set out to demonstrate it in his most popular
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