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Philosophical Views on 'Wrong' Lying

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

Lying Viewed Through Kant's Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant believed that lying is wrong in all instances, a view called his Categorical Imperative. This paper offers a critica...

Pursuing and Improving the Soul According to Socrates

control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to pesticide...

There is Never a Justification for Lying

lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...

Lying is Never Ethical

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

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

AN ANALYSIS OF LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME

Americans like history, they dislike their history classes with a passion. Too much of what is considered "fact" in histor...

U.S. Society and Race Relations

In five pages this paper examines 2 racism models and considers how race relations are featured in James W. Loewen's Lies My Teach...

Tannen: “Sex, Lies and Conversation”

cover many different subjects in the course of one conversation. I have found just the opposite to be true. I can remember sitting...

Iraq: Collateral Damage

This 3 page paper argues that the Iraqis have been lied to by both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...

Mead Case Study Answers

MUS is not only the number of line items in a given population, but also an approximate book value of the largest item - this, as ...

Lying, Right, Wrong, and Contemporary Journalism

In five pages this paper evaluates the status of contemporary journalism in a consideration of impartial coverage, misrepresentati...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

The Arguments For Torture; Are They Right?

in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...

First Person Narrative of a 'Bad' Day

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

Kantian Ethics Applied to the Abortion Issue

the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed o...

Ethics and Policy Regarding the Workplace and AIDS

In a paper consisting of eight pages ethical policy concerns are applied to AIDS and the workplace with liberal philosophical view...

Christianity and the Wrong Views of Friedrich Nietzsche

by those in a particular sect of Christianity, there would be more purity in the Christian religions. Yet, this is not the case an...

Views by Plato and Socrates That No One Knowingly Commits Wrong

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

Dorothy Day and Elie Wiesel on Compassion and Spirituality

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the spirituality and compassion views of Jewish survivor of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel...

Ethics: The Views of Aristotle and Kant

life, white lies can protect people from hurt feelings. They can be used to motivate others to do good things. There are sometimes...

'Rights and Wrongs' of Ethics

community, a society, wherein they feel they belong and they are safe. If they have doubts about what is right and wrong it is lik...

Overview of Lies and Liars

It is a lie that has no real consequences and is really not even thought out. It is merely a response, normally to a question perh...

Social Control and the 'Noble Lie' of Plato

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

Hershey's Enterprise 21 System Fiasco

proportion, 70 percent of all ERP projects fail. The same author comments that ERP projects require a significant amount of "coord...

Lying in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

lies on his or her resume, and the employer finds out, the employer will feel wronged. Usually, it ends in the employees dismissal...

Is Man Inherently Good or Evil?

(Spinks, 2003). Spinks (2003) writes: "Nietzsches immoral philosophy seeks to overcome the reactive morality of good and evil impo...

Effects of Layoffs at Verizon

did not intend to lay off people but that is not what employees report on blogs (Goldstein, 2009). One employee in Philadelphia re...

Philosophical Contributions of Ibn Sina

a fictitious narrative (Marenbon 40). His texts successfully incorporated quantitative and qualitative perspectives (Nasr and Raz...