Rationality

Plato describes how a good soul differs from a bad soul due to the amount of the appetitive part compared to the rational part. Aristotle’s soul has a distinguishable function as a human being, thought, which allows the soul of a human to pursue rationality. This power of thought also pushes the soul towards chase a life of happiness and…

1: Five Significant Ethical Decisions: Tony is the CEO of his father’s weapons manufacturing company, Stark Industries, and when questioned about his role in the violence around the world in which his weapons are involved, he simply states that he is continuing his father’s legacy and lists some of the other technology that was developed as a result. The first decision that he made was creating these weapons without checking up on whose hands they were ending up in. There was surely evidence…

Kant’s deontology and Aristotle’s virtue ethics are similar in that they both question one’s intentions when handling issues of morality. Virtue ethics asks that one looks within, while deontology asks that one looks towards rationality and duty. Respect for humanity is essential – deontology showing this respect through requiring that one never treat another as merely a means to an end, but in respect to their means and their existence as ends as well. Virtue ethics requires such respect by way…

convinced either by normative or informational influence. STEP SIX- CREATE SHORT TERM WINS Henry wasn’t rigid. He tried to convince jurors one by one. He slowly gathered support from each one of them by giving logics and breaking their bounded rationality. . He takes out a similar knife and made them realize that it was possible that another knife was used. He showed exactly how an old man couldn’t have possibly been able to see the murder (boy) run down the stairs in 15 seconds. Every time a…

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher renowned for his revolutionary metaphysical and epistemological theories, and for his very strict deontological moral theory. The latter stressed the absolute or “exceptionless” nature of moral rules, together with the irrelevance of consequences or feelings in the assessment of moral judgments. As a strong deontologist Kant opposed to all forms of consequentialism. He also opposed to any type of non-cognitivist in ethical theory, particularly the form…

For example, within Isaac Asimov’s “Reason”, QT-1 possesses logical thinking, such as the Three Laws of Robotics that govern his actions and provide rationality to his decisions. By having this “moral compass” within his positronic brain, QT-1 proves to be more efficient than Donovan and Powell in controlling the space station. Asimov exemplifies that robots hold the capability of being more productive…

Kant VS Mill: The Trolley Problem The Trolley problem involves a runaway train that you are driving, but the train has breaks that don’t work. You can either chose to drive straight and kill five men working on the track or hit a switch that will divert the trolley onto a side track and only kill one worker, which would you chose? There is also a second scenario to this problem; the train can either go straight and hit the five people or a fat man can be pushed in front of the…

Although Frankenstein sets out to create a human being, throughout the novel he refers to his unnamed creation as “devil,” “creature,” “monster,” and “fiend.” These names imply that Frankenstein does not consider his creature to be a true human being. The question though is: why not? How does the novel distinguish the human from the nonhuman? Since the creature can reason, use language, and feel emotion, why shouldn’t he be considered human? How and why is the category of “monster” applied to…

The Enlightenment thinking dominated the philosophical world in the 1700s. The Enlightenment way of thinking is to use rationality to answer the age old question, what is truth? In response to this movement, a group of American people in the 1800s believed that you should use your instincts to make decisions. Besides using your instincts, Transcendentalists also wanted to create a uniquely American literature and define human existence and spirituality. The three main Transcendentalist…

In the poem "I felt A Funeral In My Brain", there are many different ways to interpret the meaning of this poem. It can be assumed that the speaker is going through a very traumatic event in her life. The funeral going on in her head was very traumatic for the speaker, and she did not like it at all. The poem could be the metaphor for the traumatic event. It is also possible that the speaker just has a really bad headache and wanted to write about it. And it can be assumed the speaker was not…