Immanuel Kant Essays

The case I will be presenting is the Nazi at the door case. This takes place during the World War II in Europe. During this era, Jews were being hunted and killed. You are currently letting Jewish people hide out in your home. Suddenly, a Nazi knocks on your door. …

Insists that lying is wrong in every circumstance. But despite Kant’s fervent belief, it is not hard to see how lying can be a beneficial, mutually advantageous, and in fact moral act that still consistently complies with Kant’s own moral imperatives. Because Kant’s philosophy does not specifically define what a …

Immanuel Kant was renowned German philosopher who sought to reconcile the Continental rational philosophies with those of the British empirical philosophers. The rationalist philosophers, such as Descartes, believed that the fundamental source of all knowledge was not simply observation, but that it was a priori, which is independent of experience. …

Over the last decade, the advent of cloning and advancements in human genetic research have presented society with a complicated moral quandary. Debate rages as to what constitutes legitimate paths of inquiry and where to draw the line as to research that strikes many people as morally wrong. The basic …