Question: Kant focused on the intentions behind your actions when assessing the morality of the act, while Bentham and Mill focused on the consequences of your actions when assessing their moral worth. Of the two, consequences and intentions, which do you think is more important when it comes time to assess the morality of … Read more
For this discussion, I decided to choose question #1: What exactly is Empiricism? Please provide specific examples to support your answer. From my understanding of the lesson on Empiricism, I can relate it to the saying “Never judge a book by its cover”. Like it was stated in the history of Empiricism, appearances can be … Read more
Question: In Meditation V, Descartes proffers an ontological argument for God’s existence. Assess that argument and determine if you find it convincing. Then discuss if this argument is enough for him to claim in the last paragraph of Meditation VI, “For from the fact that God is not a deceiver it follows that in cases like these … Read more