Immanuel Kant
Essays

In "Modernist Painting," a 1965 essay by author Clement Greenberg, the writer elucidates a number of points that are fairly crucial to the definition and conception of the philosophy known as Modernism.

Deontology is a moral theory, which says that an act should be inherently correct by itself to justify its performance. Utilitarianism argues that the correctness of an act depends on the beneficial results, whatever the means used. The theories are applied in a case of Tay Sachs disease.

Capital Punishment Analyzed by Utilitarian Ethics & Kantian Ethics

Human Geography is the study of features and phenomena on earth that are human-made features. Geographers monitor these features and record changes and do so through examining the spatial organization or how it is that…

The human condition is a complex field - one that in fact requires many different fields of knowledge. The different fields of knowledge that take for their object of study what it means to be human are collectively…

On what grounds does Machiavelli justify being 'not good' in the Prince.

Postulate: Constructivist theory applies best to teaching for the construction trades

Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative is a moral rule that holds that decisions should be made on the basis of what we ought to do and on acting in the way we would want to become an absolute rule.

Deidre McCloskey, the Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). [HB501 M55341 2006 -- Grad]

The pursuit of happiness, though not spelled out explicitly until John Locke proposed it as an unalienable right, is likely the oldest and ultimate endeavor of all mankind. All other pursuits can be seen as merely…