Environmental philosophy

the end would be to help other children. Doing so makes such an act immoral. This would be the case if the term humanity applies to Baby Angela. In “Kant’s Formula of Humanity,” Christine M. Korsgaard, an American philosopher and a professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, states: “When Kant says that the characteristic of humanity is the power to set an end, then, he is not merely referring to personality, which would encompass the power to adopt an end for moral or sufficient reasons.…

The true meaning of love is a topic that has been debated about since ancient times and Plato’s Symposium is one text that deals with the problem of defining love. In Plato’s “Symposium”, seven Greek philosophers take turns debating the meaning of love at a dinner party. Each philosopher has a different point of view and opinion of what love is and why we desire love. This text is extremely influential still to this very day, as it raises important questions about love that are significant to…

Do you know what defines you? A moral compass is used in reference to a person’s ability to judge what is right and wrong and act accordingly. A moral compass tells you what is right and wrong. There are people that will judge you based on a single issue. They judge you to see if your moral compass is good or bad. Tupac, Louis Zamperini, and Constancia each had moments that challenged them to change their moral compass. Louis was able to become a better person by overcoming…

The Good Will, as described by Kant, is the aspect or capacity of human persons to choose on the basis of the dignity of all human persons which ultimately derives from reason, our most distinctive human capacity. Dewey believes in the idea of Moral Maturity, that people become responsible for others and treat them a particular way. It becomes difficult for someone to be Morally Mature if they do not have a clear distinction between right and good. The idea of what is right is often taught to us…

Stoic vs Aristotle I believe that Aristotle would disagree with the two Stoic teachings discussed on the handout. The first Stoic teaching mentioned in the handout deals with virtue and vice. The teaching states that virtue is the only true good and vice the only true evil. The first teaching also states that things such as money, pleasure, pain, hunger, food, etc. are neutral, and are to be treated with indifference. The second Stoic teaching mentioned in the handout deals with the virtuous…

According to Mike Epps, prostitution should not be legalized because it serves no purpose. He is wrong. There are good benefits to legalizing prostitution. Economic gain, lowering contraction of STD’s, and lowering sexual assault against women. Mike Epps believes in his choice against the legalization of prostitution. First, Mike thinks that legalizing prostitution brings with it no economic gain. He says legalizing prostitution will take away the appeal of the act as it will be accepted and…

In ‘Personal Identity’, Derek Parfit presented the idea that being destroyed and replicated is just as good as ordinary survival. This essay will focus on Parfit’s argument of the Branch Line Case and will examine why personal identity matters, a critical perspective and will discuss an objection and respond to the empty question. Parfit argued that being replicated then destroyed resulted in the same outcome as ordinary survival. From the analogy of the Branch Line case, a human body was…

The opinion of what truth is like has been distorted over the years. Then everyone began to develop their own separate view, which snowballed into something called moral relativism. Moral relativism contradicts itself, because nothing is true if everyone thinks something different is true. That is why Catholics believe in moral absolutism, which states that morality relies on universal truths and God is as unchanging as them. These universal principles help guide us to a greater morality and are…

Sartre thinks otherwise, “everything happens to every man as if the entire human race were staring at him and measuring himself by what he does” (Sartre 26), which leads me to defend the practicality of Sartre’s philosophy. Early Sartre was fascinated with America, namely our freedom-bearing constitution, however following World War II and amidst our involvement in Vietnam, he revoked his endorsement. Specifically, Sartre said “in the land of equality and liberty…

People act in benign selfishness. A person wakes up, showers, eats, brushes his teeth, and preforms other activities to take care of himself. If selfishness is focusing on oneself and acting in a way that benefits oneself, then everyone should strive to be selfish. The opposition would argue that if each person acted selfish then the world would be an aggressive campaign to compete and do better against one another. That belief is caused by the word selfish being unclearly defined. Benign…