Immanuel Kant
Essays

This paper analyzes two early political philosophers, Immanuel Kant and Jean Jacques Rousseau. These philosophers began the age of Romanticism, the idea of the state as the medium for achieving utopia. Their ideas were challenged by the absolutist monarchs present in Europe in the 18th century, and their writings influenced the French Revolution of 1789.

"To tell the truth is a duty, but is a duty only with regard to one who has a right to the truth. But no one has a right to a truth that harms others" (Immanuel Kant, "Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals")

The issue of the military and its relationship with the press is greatly varied and complex. The military for example has of necessity upheld a code of secrecy for the purpose of protecting its procedures during warfare.

¶ … reign of King Henry VIII of England has gone down in history as one of the most violent and tyrannical rules in the recorded western tradition. Yet, at the same time, his drastically self-interested acts as king…

The Gulf War from Kant's Cosmopolitan Perspective

Immanuel Kant's perspective in regard to the connection between reason and freedom is particularly controversial, as the Prussian philosopher considered that being purely rational is basically the same as being free.

The concept of Autonomy in "Paradise Lost"

¶ … Philosophy of Descartes and its rational transition through the stages of senses, self (Cogito) and God (Innate Idea). Find two criticisms on Descartes approach to philosophy.

This paper examines Alan Dershowitz's essay on the advocacy of torture and analyzes torture from a Utilitarian view point and a Kantian perspective. John Stuart Mill's view point is used to define Utilitarian, and supplies the argument for torture. Kantianism allows an argument to be made that opposes torture.

Kant described a clear difference between phenomena (objects as interpreted by human understanding) and noumena (objects as things-in-themselves, those in which humans cannot directly experience). Modern phenomenology was dissatisfied with this limited approach to all things knowable, and attempts to create the conditions for the objective study of topics that are typically found to be subjective – judgments, emotions, perceptions. It focuses on a scientific method, but is not clinical or biological; but rather it seeks to use a more systematic reflection of ideas to determine a more structured approach to experience