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To what extent is impartiality a necessary condition of moral judgements?

Before exploring whether impartiality is a necessary condition of moral judgements, it is important to define impartiality. Impartiality is the act to separate your own emotional perspective of a particular ...
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'Religious language is meaningless'. Evaluate and discuss this statement.

Answer should demonstrate a coherent structure. Student should evaluate claims that disagree with their standpoint. Can include 'Logical positivists', verfication/falsification principle, A.J. Ayer. Should d...
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What is the difference between Bentham and Mill's Utilitarianism?

Utilitarianism, as it is best understood, is the idea that the best moral action is that which maximises utility. Utility is shorthand for good consequence, this good consequence being the state of highest w...
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What are the arguments against the existence of Free Will?

Two schools of thought dispute the existence of Free Will: the soft determinists and the hard determinists. Soft Determinists believe in partial Free Will. Kant says that we can't control the emotions we fee...
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What are the philosophical grounds for Frege's notion of 'sense'?

To understand Frege’s notion of ‘sense’, it is imperative to grasp the problem it aims to address. It is a fundamental principle of logic that if two singular terms (a,b,c, etc.) are identical, then they mus...
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