Critique of Pure Reason

phenomenon in order to understand the behaviour of individuals subject to authority, after Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, declared during the trial held in Jerusalem, that he was just carrying out Hitler's orders. For what reason do humans, in specific circumstances, delegate their own autonomy to authority? Are people able to execute orders, that are conflicting with their own morality and virtue, when those orders are given by an authoritarian figure? How…

philosophers within the modern era, each with their own respective ideology and philosophy; Kant was influenced by rationalism, crafted a theory after the Copernican Revolution explaining the role of human reason in obtaining knowledge, whereas Hume, who was influenced by skepticism, put an end to pure reason and an end to the Enlightenment Era. In the following term paper I will first give a definition of epistemology, followed by explaining in detail Kant’s distinction between analytical and…

The strongest objection to utilitarianism is that Bentham fails to respect individual rights and liberty, values that are advocated by Libertarian philosophers. Unlike libertarianism, utilitarians only value individuals under the condition that each unit of their happiness is measured collectively with the happiness of everyone else. Dudley and Stephens cannibalised Parker in order to save three lives and bring about the subsequent happiness of their families. Although the overall balance of…

because I personally now feel that I became a better public speaker than what I was before. In fact I was excited to get my video after I presented because watching myself on video giving a speech does improve my speaking skills and I was able to critique myself while watching. In addition, watching this video made me more self- conscious and I was able see if I made mistakes or not in front of the audiences. After finishing the whole video, I felt good…

object and determine whether it was beautiful or not. These people are the most valuable people because of their abilities and skills (Dresser, 1870). For Dresser, the quality of an ornament does not depend on its material, so he believed that the reason behind having a beautiful ornament is its own characteristics, which make the ornament more appealing to people who look at it. For that, an ornament does not have to deliver a meaning to people, nor to show them what to do and where to go.…

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Midnight’s Children The history of India and its neighbouring countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is a rich and luminous tale as it encompasses the countless successes and hardships each country experienced during its development as independent entities. In 2012, Deepa Mehta, an Indo-Canadian film director with a screenplay by Salman Rushdie, a British Indian novelist, produced the film “Midnight’s Children.” Together they brought to the screen a magical yet historical tale on the partition of…

“equal itself” . According to Socrates, people possess knowledge of the Equal itself before being able to perceive through their senses, objects of equal proportions . The recollection theory extends to the Beautiful itself, the Good itself, and every pure Form of the sort. Socrates asserts that a proof of recollection is the fact that we cannot perceive of the notion of equality through the bodily senses . Instead we acquire of such knowledge prior to birth and forget it when entering 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,…

“We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers: and with good reason. We have never looked for ourselves – so how are we supposed to find ourselves?” begins Friedrich Nietzsche in the preface of his book, On the Genealogy of Morality (Nietzsche 3). In this statement, Nietzsche illustrates our lack of self-questioning and self-knowledge, criticizing man for treating the value of moral values “as given, as factual, beyond all questioning” (Nietzsche 8). He places the origin and development of our…