Immanuel Kant

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the moral philosophies of St Augustine, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle. Each philosopher has their own understanding of goodness. However, there are universally accepted principles regarding the morality of actions such as murder and stealing. Although the reasons, methods, and definition of doing good may differ…

Kant and Mill’s Theories on Jean Valjean             Dictionaries can have similar thousands of meanings for the word “good.”  Those definitions given are in part, true.  But what really determines the goodness of a person, thing, situation, or action?  What determines bad or “evil” too?  Morality, then, is the next thing that comes to mind. …

Sanded Michael Sanded starts off “The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Se by stating that philosophy is unavoidable and has existed from the beginning of humanity. He states, “To engage in a political practice is already to stand in reel action to theory. For all our uncertainties about ultimate questions Of political philosophy why of…

Moral intuitionINTRODUCTIONEveryday, we people are faced with different decisions to make. These are decisions that regards career, action towards family members, friends and even in their relationship with God. Basically, people are always in constant dilemma on how they will live their lives. Their actions are their lives in general. What they manifest are their…

Introduction Lying is said to have started in the Bible when the Serpent lied to Eve about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, telling her “You shall not die” (NIV Holy Bible, Gen 3.4). It is indeed as old as humanity itself. Throughout the years, philosophers have contended against each other on…

I’m going to talk in this assignment about the movie: Gone Baby Gone; which is an incredible, fresh, and real film, and its relation with Kant theory. In this movie characters are rich and alive; the story is compelling, surprising, and not at all predictable. Kant said that one must have a respect for the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson asks the question, “Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past. ” He begins his book by discussing how age affects thought and asks the question of why we, as adults, have to go by tradition and stories that have previously been told instead of making our own history…

Immanuel Kant and the Categorical ImperativePrinciples of Kantian ethics requires that a doctrine of action be universalizable before it can be considered as a properly ethical imperative. Kant provided the criteria of universalizability to all human actions that presents as an ethical imperative. Immanuel Kant In the 18th century, a German philosopher named Immanuel Kant put forward…

A real knowledge, one ought to know, goes along with the morality of such knowledge. In so much, before one can be admitted or introduced into a particular area of study, one must be acquainted the morality or the value of such field of study. For this same reasons, morality is very crucial in the…

Kant: The Humanity FormulaFew formulas in philosophy have been so widely accepted and variously interpreted as Kants injunction to treat humanity as an end in itself(Hill, 38). Immanuel Kants views, as elucidated in his book, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, are based on the belief that people count by prohibiting actions which exploit other…