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who indicates that Lee possessed "Philosophical notions of action and inaction, self and not-self, voidness and wholeness, spontan...

to discern between what is true and what is opinion has led humanity toward incredible advances in knowledge over the last several...

there is a contradiction. Good will should be implemented, but at the same time, there is a sense that relying on such ideas, or s...

as President against John Kerry. Rathers broadcast suggested that Bush had received preferential treatment by being allowed to se...

ethical theory, utilitarianism and deontology often enter the picture. Mill (2001) for example, who is a utilitarian, claims that ...

not all agree with that assessment. Harvey began to mistrust the government which could prove dangerous if he were to become invo...

right. Kant felt that right actions had moral value in of themselves, not simply because of their consequences. Therefore, he wrot...

situations where lying is attached to a greater good, no one can predict the future. The premise is therefore sound as a maxim. In...

administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...

words, living a life of virtue has its own implicit rewards some might equate with happiness, but the instant gratification achiev...

are doing is unethical. Why? The majority of people are not environmental activists and they do not care about the trees. Of cours...

a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...

be wrong. Of course, one only has to look back half a century to see Martin Luther King, Jr. sitting in jail in Birmingham because...

of ethical considerations in the art of persuasion, Johannesen (2010) offers the scenario of a hypothetical speaker attempting to ...

actions that he would normally finds repugnant. Similarly, the captain of the guard who compels Joe to commit murder undermines Jo...

policy for dealing with the issue of gays and lesbians serving in the US military was implemented by the Clinton administration as...

representative of a different generation, one that freely mixes and matches from the whirring flood of information across new and ...

times. However, not all societies approve of it or approach it in the same way. Since there is a great deal of criticism of it as ...

should treat other people as ends in themselves rather than as means to an end, and that one should act in such a manner that cons...

The poor in America are considered in a paper consisting of five pages in which various ethical philosophical perspectives includi...

by nature to carry. When this occurs, the couple is urged to undergo a procedure where some of the embryos are selectively...

In twelve pages community policing is considered from an ethical perspective in terms of virtue, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism wi...

of the marketplace by big business (Bittlingmayer, 2002). Catanzaro (2000) accuses President Richard Nixon of using antitrust law ...

remembered that slavery was legal until the mid-nineteenth century and racism and discrimination were likewise legal until the mid...

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

rule utilitarianism (Pojman and Meagher 223). Act utilitarians are often thought of as consequentialists because they look at the...

our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...

some point, the fetus has a face, but perhaps cannot survive on its own. The question becomes whether or not this fetus is a human...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

According to Kantian theory, private employee monitoring - at least, without informing the employee - is not moral, no matter how ...