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Essays 181 - 210
the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...
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....
(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...
a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...
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...
aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...
in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...
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...
of the government was quick and without "civil commotion." But while Machiavelli praises Agathocles on one hand, he also points ...
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...
search of what she calls new delights, but she would soon realize that love was what gives life meaning (1998). One might think th...
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...
is the right thing to do, even if it will make life much more difficult for the individuals involved. Others suggest that the fetu...
on around him and within his community regardless of what that community might be. The Revenge of Conscience...
core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...
as burglary and even bigamy, where offenders may be granted a higher sentence, and as such we need to question the morals of a soc...
exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...