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Essays 211 - 240
and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...
While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...
meaning; however, it has a totally different meaning if one steals from a prosperous bakery in order to keep ones family from star...
is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...
than just law, justice is the product of morals and ethics (Kropotkin, 1923). Three philosophical frameworks in particular can be...
in terms of a code of ethics, such as seen perhaps in something like the Ten Commandments. Morality needs the study of ethics in o...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...
smacks of anarchy. As long as we dont "hurt" anyone, anything goes. Absolute truth has been discarded. It would seem that there is...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...
own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...
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...
controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
From this beginning, other theories involved that explain social behavior in terms of learning theory. According to social-learnin...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
play the desires of the majority, upon which this nation is primarily based. If the majority of the people, for example, believe t...
exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...
"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...
search of what she calls new delights, but she would soon realize that love was what gives life meaning (1998). One might think th...
just cause war. According to Sterba, there are three criteria that constitute a just war. "There must be substantial aggressio...
her husband who did not reside with her. As such she could not deny that she had an affair with someone. However, she would never ...
employed. PREMISE 2: Self-defense must correlate with reasonableness. PREMISE 3: Both law and morality must play a role in the e...
his relationship with God (Smith, 2001). Based on this description and my own upbringing and early training, my own decisions re...
of the government was quick and without "civil commotion." But while Machiavelli praises Agathocles on one hand, he also points ...