Immanuel Wallerstein

Trying to determine what the right thing to do in a situation may lead to an abysmal void. Michael Sandel, a professor of justice at Harvard, poses his students with many controversial situations that spark different arguments and questions. Along with the situations, he introduces philosophies and moral principles that back up the contrasting perspectives. One of the first things that Sandel presents is consequential and categorical moral reasoning. While a consequential reasoning focuses on…

Euthanasia has been the topic of debate for years. The issue of surrounded by euthanasia effects ethical and legal that relates to patient and health care professionals (Naga & Mrayyan, 2013). Euthanasia is defined as the active killing of patients by doctor at the request of the patients. There are several types of euthanasia, active and passive, voluntary and involuntary. Active euthanasia refers steps that are taking to cause death; passive euthanasia refers to step that are taking to…

to become a universal law.” Immanuel Kant is a German philosopher. Kant was known as the most influential thinker of Enlightenment era. Kant is one of the greatest western philosophers of all time. Immanuel Kant was most known for his Critique of Pure Reasoning work. Kant is also known for his work on epistemology, which is the theory of knowledge. Kant even did work on aesthetics and ethics, these had influenced many philosophers and contemporary philosophers. Immanuel Kant was known as the…

Utilitarianism and Kant’s deontological theory are both similar and conflicting in their own ways. The two proposals hold grounds that serve as foundational moral theories. Within utilitarianism, there is a way of quantifying pleasure and pain in order to apply the GHP. This group provides qualities of pleasure such as intensity, duration, certainty, and propinquity of pleasure. These qualities translate to how hard, how long, how reasonable, and how soon. Within ethical decision making these…

Morality is the principle concerning between what is the right behavior and what is the wrong behavior. Each person has different set of moral views, that can be influence by personal feelings, a group of other people or by the care for humanities as a whole. As people grow and mature, they go through a moral development causing them to change their moral views. Many argue that moral development is impossible to achieve, but other have proven that moral development is possible. As an individual…

greater than human perception, the term metaphysics literally means “after the things of nature.” In philosophy, therefore, metaphysics is a renowned sector that utilizes extensive postulations to define both reality and humanity’s understanding of it. Immanuel Kant, an eighteenth-century German philosopher, devoted his elevated thinking to the concept of morality. In his 1797 work “Metaphysics of Morals,” Kant provides a clarifying basis of the principles of ethics, allowing subsequent…

James Liang: The Morality Behind the Crime On September 18th, 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Volkswagen installed software that falsified the amount of emissions produced in over 475 thousand cars (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS). This software was used to hide the fact that their engines could not meet the United States’ strict emission standards (Viswanatha). Within the week of the EPA’s announcement, Volkswagen stated that around 11 million cars were…

The term epistemology is the theory of knowledge of how it is attained and confirmed, and it is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. One of the most influential philosophers of epistemology is David Hume. He is also a skeptic who believes that many people are conceived by the things they think they know which fails them to perceive the truth. In the following, I will be explaining about how Hume argue against religion using objection to the cosmological argument…

In this paper, I will compare the argument Hume makes and Kant’s claim for the origin of moral motivation. First, I will look at the argument made by Hume, who argues that passion is the root of all moral motivation. Then, I will examine the claim made by Kant, who posits that reason is the origin of moral judgements. After showcasing both, I will compare the two. Finally, I will conclude by arguing that Hume’s argument for the origin of moral judgements is the stronger of the two. It is more…

the most morally correct options are? Depending on perspective and cultural differences basic moral values are subject to change, but that isn’t the only thing affecting how we evaluate morality. As can be illustrated by the theories of ethicists Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, sometimes our ideas of what makes something moral are more important than the action itself. Kant was a German philosopher who was born during the 1700s that had a big impact on the Enlightenment. In his earlier years…