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    Kant and Descartes

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    Liz Johnson December 12‚ 2012 Kant and Descartes “Idealism is the assertion there are none but thinking thing beings. All other things‚ which we believe are perceived in intuitions‚ are nothing but presentations in the thinking things‚ to which no object external to them in fact corresponds. Everything we see is just a construction of the mind.” (Prolegomena). Idealism maintains that there are no objects in the world‚ only minds. According to idealism‚ the existence of outer objects is

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    Kant And Skepticism

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    Is skepticism self-refuting? Immanuel Kant argued that although human knowledge comes from experience‚ nonetheless knowledge must be grounded in some necessary truths. It is hard to see how the existence of logically and metaphysically necessary truths is enough to ground human knowledge. Following Kant’s reasoning‚ there are certain types of knowledge we have no access to. I will argue that Presuppositionalism is more plausible than Kant’s skepticism about certain types of knowledge‚ and that from

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    Kant on Suicide

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    beings Kant believes we have a categorical duty of self-preservation to not wilfully take our own lives. Kant talks in depth about duty and believes we should act out of respect for the moral law. The will is the only inherent good‚ as we are only motivated by duty and nothing else. We should act only out of demands of the law‚ not from inclination‚ desires or to achieve a particular goal. Duty dictates we should never act or will something if we do not want it to become a universal law. Kant was against

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    Kant: Goodness

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    Kant: Goodness The philosopher I used is Immanuel Kant. He was very practical in his thinking of goodness. A quote of his was "I ought‚ therefore I can". His view was good anything is under good will . He believed good will was the primary goodness‚ good in its purest form‚ and that it couldn’t be corrupted. Good feelings and good intentions and actions can be interpreted in different ways; man can corrupt these things into evil...even though it still might be good in that man’s eyes

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    Kant and Rousseau

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    The Influence of Kant and Rousseau on the Enlightenment The eighteenth century was a time of rapid change and development in the way people viewed humans and their interaction with others in society. Many countries experience revolution and monarchies were overthrow. People began to question the values that were ingrained in society and governments that ruled them. Two of the biggest philosophers of that time were Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ who both ignite the overthrow of tradition

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    Kant And Utilitarianism

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    According to Kant‚ he believes that the only thing unconditionally good is good will. Good will is the idea of people having to do ones moral duty. Kant’s ethical theories are based off of the categorical imperatives. Categorical imperatives‚ as stated during class‚ act only on those rules that you can rationally will to be universal. In response to Kant’s theory‚ I believe that good will is not the only thing that is unconditionally good. I believe this because there will be many instances in life

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    Kant Final

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    Christopher Rowley Modern Final on Kant 1. For Kant‚ it is of the greatest importance that one distinguishes a priori from a posteriori judgments‚ as well as synthetic from analytic judgments. A priori judgments involve absolute necessity and strict universality‚ i.e. they are valid without variation for all cognizant beings. A posteriori judgments‚ on the other hand‚ are empirical and as such are necessarily synthetic. In the case of synthetic claims‚ the predicate is not contained in the

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    Immanuel Kantian Ethics

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    Kantian ethics can be used to analyze the moral implications of James’ decision without considering the consequences that occurred afterwards. Immanuel Kant’s theory of morality is based off of two virtues: good will and duty. Kant believed that good will is pure when analyzed morally whether or not the intentions of the good will succeeded or failed. To broaden the critique‚ a person’s good will can also be analyzed alongside a person’s

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    Kant and Equality

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    KANT AND EQUALITY Some readers of this essay will have become impatient by now; because they believe that the problem that perplexes me has been definitively solved by Immanuel Kant. It is certainly true that Kant held strong opinions on this matter. In an often-quoted passage‚ he reports a personal conversion from elitism: “I am myself a researcher by inclination. I feel the whole thirst for knowledge and the eager unrest to move further on into it‚ also satisfaction with each acquisition. There

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    Kant vs. Mill

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    Kant vs Mills in Animal Rights In this essay I will cover the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. I will begin by covering Kant perspective of rational beings and his idea of a priori learning. I will then move on to his idea of categorical imparaitive. After Kant I will discuss Mill’s utilitarian theory regarding pleasure and pain. With a better understanding of those I will move to Mill’s idea of a posteriori and hypothetical imperative. Following the ideas of these philosophers

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