John Stuart Mill on Morality 
Immanuel Kant argues that the Categorical Imperative is binding on any
rational agent. .... The Categorical Imperative is rather binding on any
rational agent. ....
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Kant and Hume on Promises
.... This is what he calls the practical reason. Kant says that the
rational agent is able to exercise choice and to choose the good. ....
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Kant on Moral philosophy & Ethics
.... a commitment to the basic principle of morality (the so-called 'Categorical Imperative') is presupposed by the very activity of a
rational agent" (Williams 555 ....
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Kant and Metaphysics of Morals
.... As a
rational agent, man conceives of himself as free and as a member of the intelligible world and thus must recognize the principle of autonomy. ....
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Chomsky and Sapir
.... Chomsky's work, bit within linguistics proper as well as its history, from a Kantian perspective, is to provide a picture of the
rational agent who is both ....
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Abortion and the Death Penalty
.... Pro-Choice or pro-abortion argument, it is asserted that the fetus is not a person from the moment of conception and, therefore, is not "a
rational agent" or a ....
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Life and Death: Abortion and the Death Penalty
.... Pro-Choice or pro-abortion argument, it is asserted that the fetus is not a person from the moment of conception and, therefore, is not "a
rational agent" or a ....
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Life and Death: Abortion and the Death Penalty
.... Pro-Choice or pro-abortion argument, it is asserted that the fetus is not a person from the moment of conception and, therefore, is not "a
rational agent" or a ....
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Sociological Theories
.... alike. In the probabilistic sense, Weber viewed a more ideal type that gleaned its hegemony from the model of a
rational agent. This ....
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Mills' Theory of Modern Society
.... alike. In the probabilistic sense, Weber viewed a more ideal type that gleaned its hegemony from the model of a
rational agent. This ....
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Substance Use and Max Weber's Social Theory
.... Nevertheless, Weber forms a picture of bureaucracy as the
rational, impersonal
agent of administrative coherence, particularly in the context of the modern ....
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Various Personal Essays
.... A key issue in free market economics is the concept of
rational expectations how an economic
agent would act when in possession of complete and correct ....
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Plato's Conception of Knowledge
.... First is the introduction, in which Socrates's function as midwife, or
agent of logical,
rational critique of the problem at hand is established. ....
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Six Fragments of Heraclitus
.... of our intuition that there is reality to our experience as
rational beings .... In the physical universe, fire is an
agent of chaos (particularly in war), but it is ....
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Aristotle's Philosophy Applied to John W. Hickley Jr.
.... Lacking the capacity to deliberate, impervious to the
rational-irrational tension .... for his act within Aristotle's discussion of the responsible moral
agent. ....
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Human Adaptive Behavior
.... he can hardly be said to adapt at all, certainly not as a free
agent. .... and the capitalist theorist, human adaptive behavior is based on
rational decision making ....
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Currency Reform in Berlin in 1940s
.... A key theory upon which the free market concept rests is
rational expectations -how an economic
agent would act when in possession of complete and correct ....
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Public Opinion & Legalization of Marijuana
.... A key issue in free market economics is the concept of
rational expectations how an economic
agent would act when in possession of complete and correct ....
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Political Economy and Liberalism
.... Like classical liberalism, modern liberalism sees human nature as basically
rational. .... protector of individual rights on one hand but as
agent of public ....
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Natural Law and Ethics
.... any society may experience and/or act on a complex range of
rational, subjective, psychological, emotional responses to the found society. The human
agent in a ....
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MacIntyre Ethics
.... But the rival premises are such that we possess no
rational way of weighing the .... and applicable theory in modern life on how to be a moral
agent because it has ....
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Kant's Critique of Judgment The purpose of this resear
.... Reason, or the
rational faculty, as a mediating
agent between actual and potential natural experience and actual and potential moral experience, is the ....
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Innate Nature of Linguistic Knowledge
.... For Brown, therefore, the
rational activity of abstraction is the decisive factor, not .... At that point, the mother is the social
agent of exploring more complex ....
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Nietzsche on Language
.... one feeds the other, creating the balance of intuitive and
rational that he .... model, one divides the analysis into five components: Scene, Act,
Agent, Agency and ....
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Nietzsche's View on Perceptions
.... one feeds the other, creating the balance of intuitive and
rational that he .... model, one divides the analysis into five components: Scene, Act,
Agent, Agency and ....
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Communitarian Paradigm
.... the case) as between propertied classes, of which the state is an
agent, and the .... the case of Locke, property is the principal foundation of a
rational and just ....
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Views of Various Philosophers
.... Kant's vision of
rational beings making individual choices that become universals because .... is to be determined by the educated judgment of the
agent in response ....
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Canadian Teachers & The Law
.... stoke the fire to act as parents, the teacher who is an
agent of the .... the rights and freedoms in the Charter must be fair, not arbitrary,
rational, impairing of ....
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Euthanasia as Morally Permissible
.... some means of death, such as "death-causing drug or other
agent" (Glasson 91 .... in extremis, whether the patient is competent or incompetent,
rational or irrational ....
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GROUP IDENTIFICATION and VOTING
.... However, it was noted that a given political
agent could work to make such .... increased the likelihood of voting were explained using a
Rational Choice Model. ....
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