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The Ethics of Abortion: Utilitarianism, Buddhism & Kant.
Abortion
Buddhism
Ethics
Kant
Examine how different ethical theories and religious viewpoints approach the issue of abortion. To what extent do you think they are successful in resolving the controversies? Abortion is a very controversial subject in today’s society. Although it is now legal in most Western countries, there are as many viewpoints and arguments opposing abortion as there…
Kant and Schopenhauer
Categorical imperative
Kant
Schopenhauer objected to the metaphysics of Kant, and yet he is classified as a Kantian. I argue that the conventional designation is a valid one, and that objections put forward by Schopenhauer are only semantic in the end. Schopenhauer finds Kant’s philosophy couched in absolutist terms, and this he finds to be inhuman, and not…
| born | April 22, 1724, Königsberg |
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| 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. |
| information | 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 |
