Immanuel Kant
Essays

This paper analyzes whether the moral law can be established using a purely a priori foundation. It also addresses the impact of a posteriori reasoning and asserts that there is an objective moral law which is knowable, despite what Kantian philosophy states regarding the issue. If one does not concede this point, then all points may be contradicted.

Columnist William Wineke points out that the real problem with relativism is that it gives no place to stop the slippery slide, no place to stand and say "no" (Wineke pp). In other words, each step taken simply makes it…

Rene Descartes: Historical and Philosophical Context

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is the great thinker's most critically acclaimed work but the reason for that lies not with the metaphysical content of the book but the critique of metaphysics that it generated.

These four dialogues describe the discussion of Socrates during times of trial, imprisonment, and execution of Socrates. Socrates presents his defense in the second dialogue the Apology. Should society charge individuals who challenge impunity or reward them. Socrates however fails to defend himself and receives a death sentence. Crito, Socrates friend tries to persuade him to flee the sentence, but in the course of their discussion, a question about civil foundation and moral law including treatment similar to the present emerges.

¶ … geniuses, history will never even be aware that most people even lived at all, much less that their lives had any real purpose, meaning or worth. All ideas of human equality and natural rights are just pious little…

The French revolution was an important time period for the French people in 1789. This order is an annotated bibliography of sources that provide information in regards to the revolution. The sources allow one to understand and immerse themselves to that specific time period. From the sources one is able to understand what led to the revolution and how the revolution ended.

In theory, freedom and liberty for all appears to be an excellent concept, one which nearly everyone would embrace. However, the practice of this ideology is not always as halcyon as its theoretical mandate.

An Analysis of the Radical Phase of the French Revolution

Ethics and its role on Emotion of Pleasure: Views from Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and J.S. Mill