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The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

Abortion from the Christian Perspective

(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...

Morality and the Sensibility of Thomas Hobbes

it followeth necessarily when they that have the government of religion shall come to have either the wisdom of those men, their s...

Pornography and Standards of Morality

has been the anti-porn supporters main argument in their fight to get rid of sexually explicit material. They claim it encourages...

Business and the Role of Ethics

system is well designed then it may even be their own job that becomes redundant (Taylor and Moynihan, 2002). Here we see that IT...

Aristotle's Legal Defense of a Guilty Man

and then define the perfect solution to problems that might arise. Aristotle claimed that: "I have gained this from philosophy: I ...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

Veritatis Splendor by Pope John Paul II

goes so far in explaining life. The fact that science is embraced at all is significant, as the Pope does recognize the validity o...

Morality of Stem Cell Research

in bone marrow transplants, continues to rage on within the medical community. Proponents of umbilical cord blood usage for other...

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Morality and the Law

play the desires of the majority, upon which this nation is primarily based. If the majority of the people, for example, believe t...

Utilitarianism and Morality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

Evil in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...

Tim O'Brien and Upton Sinclair on Morality

drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence and Morality Exploration Through Memory

this inquiry is something more. It is attached to religion and doctrine and the canon. In fact, any individuals memories may be ti...

Morality of the Will and the Theories of Immanuel Kant

the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...

Friendship Breakdown, Morality, and Logic

friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...

Why Crimes Involving Corporations Should be Reported

even when it comes to anonymous tip lines. The drug dealer will figure out who called and then, that endangers the life of the tip...

Without God, Would Morality be Possible?

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

The Argument for Progressive Taxation

the people. For many individuals, the idea that resources should be redistributed, and that the very wealthy should be made to sh...

C.S. Lewis and Catholic Morality Instruction

of difficulty taking a strong stand on what is right and wrong. Kilpatrick addressed this issue: if the adults in the childs life ...

Man's Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and William Golding

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...

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the Elements of Fairy Tale

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

Happiness and Morality According to Aristotle

a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...

Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor' and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne Compared

traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...

Government Should Not Legislate Morality

stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...

U.S. War With Iraq and Its Justifications

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

Autobiography of Oladauh Equiano

own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...