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Kant's kategorical imperative is a maxim - a rule - which states that all your actions must be such that they could creature the foundation for a law about how everyone ought to act in similar situations....

Act utilitarians assert that, when making morally relevant choices, on a case-by-case basis, consequences ought to be the only frame of reference for a moral agency. Thus, they uphold the primacy of the U...

In the First Meditations, Descartes aims to determine which of his many beliefs amount to knowledge. Descartes argues that if there is any doubt regarding the truth of a proposition, one does not know tha...

The tripartite view of propositional knowledge claims that some subject S knows that p if and only if:

1. p is true,

2. S believes that p, and

3. S is justified...

Aquinas’ first way was focused on the concept of an ‘unmoved mover’. Aquinas states that all things in the world can change place, form or location. He illustrates through the concept of burning wood, tha...