In an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in the companion assisted suicide cases of Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson describe themselves as “six moral and political philosophers who differ on many issues of public morality and policy.” Perhaps a distinction exists between ...

One of the controversial issues philosophy Kant is question role postulates practical reason. Their introduction into often criticised since they are regarded as heteronomic elements, violating autonomy will. In first Critique heteronomy these foundations seems to appear more distinctly. By contrast, third point where Kant’s ethics finally reaches its maturity. Here comes a formulation superflu...

while economic deterrence models are fully based on maximizing economic utility; social psychology models explain human behavior by examining the underlying attitudes, norms and beliefs. tax morale is defined as the intrinsic motivation to pay taxes. however, determinants of tax morale need to be investigated for a more comprehensive understanding of tax morale. in this paper we analyze the mos...