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… roommate's paper, would not be consistent with the Moral Law as understood by Immanuel Kant through his work, "Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals". Kant's concept of the moral law, is basically one philosophers attempt to rationalize and formulate…

… Criteria of rational knowledge Mythology - is the way of explaining and ordering what is explained and interpreted. This is a mixture of both reason and unreason, of reason and passions. Is about non-rational or irrational aspects of human…

… why people should be generally moral. The main reason being is a good sense of morality will promote human flourishing and ameliorate human suffering more so than if people were not moral, or people were all strict ethical egoists. Without people…

… than Religious Ethics Secular Ethics are the different morals and ethics followed by the Secular world. These rules/ethics are most often disregarded by the religious world and are accredited as "evil." However, Secular Ethics serve a great purpose…

… the domain of metaethics, a theory relating to moral judgments and whether they are truth-apt (capable of being true or false). This theory is supported by Ruth Benedict as she argues that normality is relative to culture, to be morally "good" tantamount…

… learned either from experience or out of curiosity. People who are ignorant are the ones who do not know the essential, practical knowledge that they need to know in order to keep their position as thoughtful, social beings. Therefore, the quote, "Ignora…

… Do you like where you are living? Of course not, as you don't like the 7.5% Provincial Sales Tax and the soaring oil price... You loathe the traffic jams, and Canada's national debts... All of these problems we are facing in this country can be…

… in the beginning of Plato's book, The Republic. Dikaisune translated into English means justice. Justice is one of the four virtues in the group with courage, self-control, and wisdom, which are proposed as being sufficient to live a moral life.…

… ideas ever to occur naturally. John Stuart Mill's approach to liberty is freedom to do anything except harm others because that is an infringement on that person's liberty. While people cannot hurt anyone else, they can hurt themselves because it is…

… person is not harming anyone but themselves, it is not right for the government to step in and do anything to stop them. He believes that it is a greater injustice to not let someone do something if they are not harming anyone else than it is to let…