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Morals, Beliefs, and Ethics

Ethics is concerned with how a moral person should behave, whereas values are the inner judgments that determine how a person actu...

Moral Education by Laurence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan

Morality (age 4 - 10) - This is when moral value resides in what the person needs and wants for himself (Laurence Kohlberg, 2002)....

Moral Dilemmas in Menken's Musical, The Little Shop of Horrors

Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...

Student Supplied Case Study on Moral Pastoral Practice

worries that God is angry with her, that maybe He hates her. She feels she has destroyed her relationship with God. She even asks ...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Moral Considerations

types of body cells, the undifferentiated forerunners of those cells that eventually will form organs, bone, blood and every other...

Moral Reasoning Theories of Kohlberg and Piaget

It goes without saying that there exists an inherent difference in the aggressive tendencies of males and females. This differenc...

The 'Moral' of Abortion

Accutane even for a short time are at great risk of having a baby with severe facial birth defects, malformed thymus glands, and m...

Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant on Killing and Morals

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Moral Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

Changing Technology and Resulting Moral and Social Threats

availing the public with bits and pieces of peoples lives to which they would not otherwise be privy. Inasmuch as Internet commun...

'Theory of Moral Sentiment' by Adam Smith

could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....

Gilgamesh, Sir Gawain, and Their Representation of Moral Values

women. According to Tablet I, Column ii, "Gilgamesh is a fate alive... He knew the secret paths that reached the eagles nest abov...

The Nights of Cabiria and Moral Struggle Films

one of irony as the opening scene in this movie continues. Cabiria and her lover are frolicking in a field. It is portrayed as som...

Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and the Moral Questions It Raises

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

Moral Decision Making and Business Ethics

an ethical lapse because this is generally refers to making decisions that are "morally wrong" (Ethics, no date). To ask someone t...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and the Use of Moral Satire

reason, and his virtue is merely appearance" (Galloway). In relationship to the Lilliputians we note that a great deal of pride...

Themes of Cultural and Moral Relativism

tribes would simply allow certain effeminate men to take on female occupations (153). Seemingly, their plight was accepted. They w...

Workplace Dating and Moral Acceptability of Employer Rule Opposition

with" (Loftus, 1995, p. 34). The relationships are too co-dependent and intimate, and once dating and sexuality is introduced to ...

Self Affirmation Threatened by Moral Anxiety and the Theories of Paul Tillich

into being during the Middle Ages then it could, in part, be blamed on the emergence of the Church as an influential power in huma...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

An Article on Subliminal Perception Critiqued

in procedural variation. In this experiment, the researchers recruited 137 college students to listen to a tape of contemporary ja...

Higher Education and the Curriculum Inclusion of Thomas Paine

(Generation Terrorists, 2004). In England, however, he was looked upon with great distaste as he stood, perhaps, for all that t...

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

Nature and Man in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan

upon human sense organs. The sights, smells, touches, and sounds of pleasurable things gives rise to appetite. Appetite gives rise...

Mr. Death Film and The Picture of Dorian Gray

In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

Saint Thomas Aquinas' Theology

the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...

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...

Ownership, the Internet, and Copyrights

emotional pain? Should she ethically bring a suit if she has a legal right to do so? Who would the defendant be?...

Dominick in Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True

In ten pages a behavioral character analysis of Dominick's personality as presented in Lamb's text is examines and also compared w...