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The essay deals with Kant and how his view on rationailty determine's his view on morality, referring to his idea of duty
... , the best way to live is the morally good way. This is not because of morality's bestowal to happiness, but because of the intrinsic ... the good will, according to Kant , leads us to the concept of the motive of duty We act from this motive of duty when we ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Motivations for Happiness: With Regards To The Planets of The Apes and John Mill
... to find a way to get back home, to things that were familiar to him. His wishes were delayed when he gets captured by the apes to ... external motivation from the hope of pleasing other people or God. The other motivation was the internal, which was to fulfill ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Descartes and how he came to his conclusions on the existence of the world. This was originally used for a presentation.
... , the most noted being: ·Benedict Spinoza who struggled to find a way to present his rationalistic conviction that the universe is ... motive for deception. God does not deceive, and doubt of the deepest sort may be abandoned forever. Therefore, we can go on to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Explain Hume's claim: 'reason is the slave of the passions'. Is Hume right about this? Does Hume's view about reason and passion imply that every action is ultimately performed for selfish reasons?
... one to achieve their incentive but not to set this incentive, and for this reason, one needs passions to motivate ... to tell you to go to the library. However, it may be used to say the best way to achieve your goal of obtaining a book would be going to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Marxist Ethics This essay explores the idea of whether or not there are 'ethics' in marxism
... revolution realize that the only way to overcome the oppression and achieve their ends is to follow their idea through to the finish. This is ... fulfilled, there will be no need for him to do his job, nor any motivation to be so inclined. This is absurd for ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
The Division of Property
... ways to help the poor and middle class. There most important goal for a government is to sustain quality of life because rebellion is bound to ... that there be different classes so that the motivation to achieve material success is limitless. Just because ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul: The Complete 1783 Edition David Hume
... weakly thought, the best way to convince us that order and happiness prevailed in a future state, was to persuade us that there ... choice; for I considered your influence as an additional motive to excite me to the study of wisdom. But what do I perceive ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
The significance of the 'Three Metamorphoses' in Nietzsche's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'.
... way to redeem one's past is to will that it had not occurred in any other way, "to redeem the past and to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Philosophy of One Century is the Common Sense of the Next.
... not have the spirit of learning, which is supposed to motivate curious someone to acquire, speculate and self-explain anything new, even ... not even believe there were other nations existing, the way Chinese people develop their languages was based on the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Enlightenment
... way to new luxuries and habits among the educated and well to do. However, the majority of Europeans remained impoverished, tied to their land, and unable to ... Their efforts to grapple with the horrors of war and the motivation for humankind to perpetrate ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy