Pre-Socratic philosophy

existence. Nietzsche however claimed that, because God is dead, we no longer have a reason to hold tightly to our morality and as a logical conclusion morality is also dead. Had Nietzsche and Kant been contemporaries, Kant would have found Nietzsche’s philosophy, like utilitarianism, to be lacking a reason for existence outside of a superficial means to be driven by our quest for material, physical pleasure (Velasquez,…

The topic of abortion has been controversial since abortions first started. Everyone seems to have their own opinion based on their ideals and then there are always the odd circumstances. Deontology is an ethical theory that cares only about the motivations of an action. It deals with the motives a person has and whether those intentions are moral or immoral. Also deontology believes that we should resect autonomy which is people’s freedom to choose. I believe that according to Kant it is…

who caught the eyes of many through quick thinking and persuasive rambling? Or maybe, he really was that great knowledgeable speaker destined to introduce the whole concept known as philosophy, who just happened to open the eyes of many; such as Plato and Aristotle. Socrates, now known as the father of western philosophy became most known for the series of events that occurred around the time of his trial. His decision making and quick sly problem solving was the reason that the world remembers…

Republic Books VI-VII Relating to Plato’s Approach to Education (Plato’s Pedagogy Relating to Republic VI, VII and Our Own Education) In Plato’s Republic Book VI, Socrates speaks about the philosopher king and in Book VII he tells the Allegory of the Cave, both relate to the education of the republic or of the group. When Socrates is speaking of the philosopher king in Book VI, he tells his students about the order of education and how to thin out the group into the society’s different groups…

François-Marie Arouet, one of France’s greatest Enlightenment writers, better known by his pen name Voltaire, wrote the satirical novella Candide that targets the church, nobility, and the French government. It was first published in January or February of 1759 by numerous publishers including Gabriel Cramer, MArc Michel Rey, Jean Nourse, Lambert and others. This book was chosen for me to critique because Voltaire is one of the philosophers that we are currently learning about in class. This…

Name: Course: Title: Date: KANT’S GROUNDING FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS 1. Deontology is the view of the act to be moral or not moral from the action done. In deontology, the consequences that an action may impact to individuals are not considered but rather, the logic behind the action is determined. Consequences should not be used to justify the good in any action, “a good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes” (Ross 33). Such action should arise from the duty, and law…

Ethical decision making is a part of life and provides a glance of an individual’s character. This document centers on the decision that Lauren was required to reach regarding a quality management issue that arisen during testing of a client’s product. It provides a brief account of the problem and the systematic phases that were in use to derive a decision of what course to follow. To formulate this decision a framework was utilized that outlined what questions needed to be answered. These…

Kantian ethics and the ethics of Kant are fundamentally separate ideas. The ethical framework Kant laid out in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of morals can be interpreted in a way which Kant himself would not adopt. This framework is based upon his three categorical imperatives, which Kant suggests our synonymous with each other. Later however, I will show how through a different application of Kantian ethics, one can radically diverge from his viewpoint, to disagree with Kant’s argument that…

The major role and function of Kant’s categorical imperative is basically to define a mechanism and an approach through which an individual can judge and determine if his actions are moral or not (Paton, 1948). In applying his categorical imperative, Kant argues that the fundamental of moral actions or acts are that they are applied and used in a universal manner. In today’s rich cultural as well as diverse community, the need for universality has become highly problematic. The fundamental…

Reason is not necessarily the means to the better life, or towards procuring ‘the good,’ from the view of these latter thinkers. It seems that Nietzsche would problematize the allegory of the den, in this respect, to no end. From a Nietzschean perspective, the relativity of our values, and the ways they merely reflect the power dynamics and social and political undercurrents of our age, begs the question of their effect on our reason (Nietzsche, 1989, p.46-47). The supposed ‘good’ or ‘moral…