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Good Life According to Friedrich Nietzsche

or good enough. This individual does not say they have gone out of their way for another, nor have they claimed that they have sto...

Love According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

Human Morality

correct, or is it morally superior to allow a twelve year old rape victim to have an abortion? The problem with morality is that i...

Toleration as Defined in 'A Letter Concerning Toleration' by John Locke

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

The Plague by Albert Camus and the Ethics of Morality and Responsibility

what happens to most of the people who are quarantined in Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, however, is different. The Narrator of the stor...

Immanuel Kant on Morality

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...

How Shirley Jackson Employs Allegory in Her Tale, 'The Possibility of Evil'

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah, Joe Klein's Primary Colors, and Political Ethics

lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...

Philosophical Conjecture and Morality

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

Reasons for Punishment According to Friedrich Nietzsche

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...

Common Denominator in Works by Walzer, Bellah et al, and Etzioni

exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...

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...

La Traviata Opera by Giuseppe Verdi

search of what she calls new delights, but she would soon realize that love was what gives life meaning (1998). One might think th...

James Rachels on Morality

theorists equate it with the use of common sense. Again, it may be argued that homosexuality is not natural because the sexual org...

Justification of the Iraq War and Other Alternative Perspectives

just cause war. According to Sterba, there are three criteria that constitute a just war. "There must be substantial aggressio...

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,...

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 ...

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...

Morality and Religion According to Immanuel Kant

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

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...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

The Sparrow by Mary D. Russell

conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...

Canto 3 of 'Inferno' by Dante

Dante used the framework of the poem to convey his ideas concerning religion and morality. An overview of Canto III and its level...

The Trial Scene in A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

as those which the British themselves aspire to. Mahmoud...

John Stuart Mill and Drugs Legalization

prevailing arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on h...

Consequences of Morality in The Republic by Plato

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

Kant, Ethics, Drug Companies, and Drug Sales

as it impedes upon the fundamental tenets of social responsibility. Doctors who accept these gifts - which might include but is n...