Critique of Practical Reason

place’, a characteristically classical play on paradoxical concepts. Since its creation, utopian literature have continually critiqued the defects of contemporaneous societies through the modelling of alternatives far superior in moral standards and practical benefits. Later works in the genre such as Pleasantville (1998) created by Gary Ross, however, captures the impossibility of such perfection due to humanity’s natural aversion to moral homogeneity. While both texts serve to highlight…

system would stand to serve no meaning. This purpose takes the approach of restorative justification where its’ sole purpose is to reform offenders to co-exist in a community with other law abiding citizens. These two purposes serve a theoretical and practical function within the criminal justice system which benefits the community and the…

puritanical lives. Kant attended the local university and made a living as a private tutor. Following this, he worked as a private teacher at the university until being officially hired to teach logic and metaphysics. Later on, Kant wrote his Critique of Pure Reason (1781-1787) alongside many other works. Throughout his philosophical career, Kant established his theory on deontological ethics based on reasoning and motives for good will, thus,…

humans we have always try to understand how the universe really works. How does the moon form? How does water really flow? How did the earth form? To provide some explanation on how the stars and the planet worked Nicolaus Corpernicus who was born in 1473 was an “astronomer and mathematician” he attended the “University of Cracow.” This man was so unique in his time; this was the “16th and 17th century” when scientific revolution was in its infancy. In those times the groundwork for modern…

Goldman was trying to make through her essays was to contextualize the anarchist theory by placing it firmly within the economic, social, and political reality of turn-of-the-twentieth-century America while demonstrating that her theory is based on a critique of the concept of the “American Dream.” American society had drifted away from the idea of “American Dream,” according to Goldman. She said it was due to the institutionalization…

In “Basic Writing as Cultural Conflict,” Tom Fox presents and then critiques various well-intentioned theories and frameworks that attempt to define basic writers and influence basic writing programs. He begins by repudiating deficit theories that center on perceived inadequacy as characteristic of the basic writer, the skills view that focuses on correcting student error, and service course ideology that simply views basic writing in a vacuum, separate and worthless to the institutions…

coin. Very passionate about her case, but unable to identify with mainstream (predominantly white) feminism she has opted for an explicitly different black feminism, which she calls Womanism This paper explores both the theoretical and the practical side of Walker’s Womanism. As an introduction to the theoretical part, first, some attention will be devoted to Walker’s life and work as well as to her position in Afro-American literature. Secondly, I will turn to the theoretical side…

is the foundation of ethics. It is a good will, that is the only things that is good as in it self. Kant defines a good will as the correction motivation and thinking, not an emotional sympathetic means but rather “the highest order” of pure practical reason. If one follows Kantian beliefs, there are two crucial questions that one must ask oneself before making decisions surrounding one’s personal ethic: 1. Can I “rationally will” that I want all people in all places, at all times to partake in…

Article Critique The integration of technology in the classroom has changed not only for how the instructors teach but how students learn within the classroom environment. Thus, problems still remain pertaining to how teachers integrate technology with significant instruction. The following paper is a critique of Chen (2008) article, “Why Do Teachers Not Practice What They Believe Regarding Technology Integration? The following critique will discuss the connection between what students are…

In order to understand Aquinas’ metaphysics, one must understand the difference between essence and existence. According to Aquinas, there are two senses of ‘being’: one sense is that “those things [are called beings] that are sorted into the ten categories (of Aristotle); in the other sense [calling something a being] signifies the truth of propositions” (Aquinas, I). Then, Aquinas goes on to say that essence is derived from a being in the first sense. Because a being can be divided into ten…