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Essays 451 - 480
controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
smacks of anarchy. As long as we dont "hurt" anyone, anything goes. Absolute truth has been discarded. It would seem that there is...
own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
play the desires of the majority, upon which this nation is primarily based. If the majority of the people, for example, believe t...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
in bone marrow transplants, continues to rage on within the medical community. Proponents of umbilical cord blood usage for other...
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...
in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...
what happens to most of the people who are quarantined in Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, however, is different. The Narrator of the stor...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...
search of what she calls new delights, but she would soon realize that love was what gives life meaning (1998). One might think th...
employed. PREMISE 2: Self-defense must correlate with reasonableness. PREMISE 3: Both law and morality must play a role in the e...
exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...
just cause war. According to Sterba, there are three criteria that constitute a just war. "There must be substantial aggressio...
"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...
way in which the ideas are created but rather because there is a lack of autonomy. He does not view morality as something that is ...
theorists equate it with the use of common sense. Again, it may be argued that homosexuality is not natural because the sexual org...
aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...
a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...
of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...
of difficulty taking a strong stand on what is right and wrong. Kilpatrick addressed this issue: if the adults in the childs life ...
the adult world of constraints into an exciting world of fun in the sun, the children come up against the usual banes of social ex...
avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...
could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....