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Kantutan in the PH
Kant
Bibliographical Introduction Nelson Mandela was the leader and co-founder of the ANCs` military wing – MK. They were responsible for many terrorist attacks and the death of many innocent civilians. He was imprisoned for his terrorist activities. For years a man cut off from the world, Mandela became after his 1990 release an internationally recognizable…
Why Kant’s Universal Law Formula Fails
Kant
Law
Why Kant’s Universal Law Formula Fails Introduction. The universal law is enshrouded by efforts to define and categorize deeds. The classification of these deeds depend on the underlying motives and the maxims which guide the. The universal law therefore seeks to give a direction on which of such deeds ought to be acceptable by…
Kant’s Object to Utilitarian Justifications of Punishment
Kant
Punishment
Why does Kant object to Utilitarian justifications of punishment? Do you agree with Kant’s objection? Explain your answer. In this essay, the utilitarian justification of punishment will briefly go through first. Then Kant’s objection to the utilitarian justification of punishment will be explained in the second part. In this part, Kant’s fundamental principle in ethics…
Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Kant
Morality
Physics
Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals The best way to understand Kant’s Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) is to read it as a continuation of the philosophy laid out in Critique of Pure Reason (1781). Otherwise it is likely to be dismissed, as it was by his disciple Hegel, as putting…
Compare And Contrast Utilitarianism With Kant MID TERM
Kant
Utilitarianism
Compare and contrast utilitarianism with Cant’s moral theory (universalism). In your response, define each theory. Discuss how they might be similar and how they might be different. Provide examples that demonstrate your key points. Utilitarianism vs… Universalism Utilitarianism (Mill) believes that the purpose of morality is to make life better pursuit of pleasure and happiness…
On Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals
Kant
Morality
Physics
This is the assertion with which the section begins; it is a point which is explained at some length (Kant, 393–394). Kant gives little in the way of argument for this proposition. He thus apparently takes it to be part of our “ordinary rational knowledge of morality”. Kant regards this section as an analysis of…
Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx
Kant
Karl Marx
Kant & Marx Introduction: According to Marx’s analysis-dialectic materialism-the root cause of exploitation lies in the private ownership of the means of production. If these means are made the property of the society (for the Marxists the society is synonymous with the State) then there will be no further exploitation. But before this, the State…
Kant and the Sociology of Taste
Kant
Sociology
Kant and the Sociology of Taste The sociology of taste is a modern discipline that is sometimes thought as undermining Kant’s theories of pure aesthetic judgment. Kant has supplied a rigorously rational analysis of aesthetic judgment, and describes the ideal which all such judgments tend to as ‘pure aesthetic judgment’. But since the advent of…
The ethical systems of Kant and Mill: A comparison and contrast Ricardo Renta
Immanuel Kant
Kant
What part does happiness play in determining the morality of an act in a situation? Can a concept that ties morality to the search of happiness truly be rational? What of the opposite? Is it possible to view every situation with objectivity, never taking into account an emotion (like happiness)? The questions above concern themselves…
Kant’s theory and its Criticism
Categorical imperative
Kant
Kant has put across various criticisms against other ethical theories which have been put across. Kant did not believe in any outcome to be inherently good, he says that happiness or pleasure could result from the worst evil acts, Kant did not believe in good character traits such as intelligence, ingenuity or courage since…
born
April 22, 1724, Königsberg
died
February 12, 1804, Königsberg
description
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy.
books
Critique of Pure Reason 1781, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals 1785, Critique of Practical Reason 1788
education
University of Königsberg (1770), University of Königsberg (1755)
quotations
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Science is organized knowledge.
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Influenced: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer
Influenced by: Aristotle, René Descartes, Plato, David Hume, John Locke
Parents: Regina Dorothea Reuter, Johann Georg Kant
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