Maxim

Not only was Maynard treating herself merely as means, but also her maxim cannot become a universal law of nature. However, the argument does not take into account the situational view of Maynard’s decision making. Kant’s universal law formula applies to all cases alike, thus treats Maynard’s voluntary act of death as an…

rules include the universal law, treat humans as ends in themselves, and act as if you live in the Kingdom of ends. Universal law is discussed first where Kant states, “There is only one categorical imperative. It is an act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time…

philosopher are appealing to a consequence of the first principle and to the end of duties, Kant considers the consequence of maxim becoming a universal law of nature, and Mill consequence of his principle is a certain kind of action (ex, lying). In also pursuing happiness in the absence of pain. All human should be good in doing the right thing act in accordance to the maxim and in such way to produce the greatest amount of happiness for everyone affected by our acts in accordance to virtue by…

machinery and producing more good along with inventing new technologies. Many new technologies introduced to europeans during this industrialization period led to the invasion however two were most helpful to the europeans, that Maxim Machine Gun, and the steam powered boat. The Maxim machine gun was…

Sequencing the human genome and interpreting the biomarkers have tremendously increased the field of medicine. Personalized medicine merges a patient’s genotype, physiology, and their predicted outcome to create a plan specialized for their condition this can include pharmaceuticals that are specially made for a particular set of nucleotide bases in DNA (Patel et al., 2013). Patients have legal rights to decide whether or not their health information is kept private (Ghosh, 2012). The issue with…

of the cradle of Western Civilization. The maxims at Delphi, deal with knowledge, virtue or excellence and happiness. The maxims are concise instructions or suggestions for living in virtue and piety. Surprisingly, they include the three Christian virtues, of faith, hope, and love, directly or by inference, which were to be revealed, more precisely, six hundred years later. They include some of the Ten Commandments. The two most famous of the maxims, “Know Thyself” and “Nothing to Excess”…

The theory of innateness is a philosophical concept developed to explain how human beings are born with certain ideas that lead to knowledge. However, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke claims that there is not satisfactory evidence to support this theory. In the first book of the Essay, Locke challenges the general assumption that the human mind innately possesses the basic truths thought necessary for the possibility of knowledge. Contrary to the widely held belief of…

Libertarians, believe that while they're unequivocally responsible for any evils they may inflict on others, regardless of what the cercumstances my be that they owe those people compenstation. However, They also allege that there is no conceivable argument that we owe something, as matter of general duty to those whom we have not wronged. A good generalization of Libertarians is that they 'would go as far as abolishing the state welfair scheames helping to house, feed, provied insurance…

BALANI, Manzil V. YAP, Winona Janelle T. Ph104 – P Unstoppable An analysis of Will Traynor’s from the novel Me Before You Me Before You, a novel by Jojo Moyes, is about making difficult choices. Will Traynor has decided that life is no longer worth living. He gave himself a deadline and was simply counting down the days. Life tried to stop him when he met Louisa, his paid companion, but his mind was set and there was no stopping a train whose tracks were broken. Before Will felt…

principle and four maxims were stated by Paul Grice, mentioned by Yule, ‘make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged` (Yule 2010: 147). There are four ‘Gricean maxims’ which supports co-operative principle: the Quantity maxim – to inform in an amount adequate to the purpose of the conversation, not to make it more informative as it is required, the Quality maxim- to…