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Product Safety Management and the Infamous Ford Pinto Case

7. Ford brought the Pinto to market in September 1970, in time for the 1971 models, as directed (Davidson, 1984). The development ...

Human Development and Its Major Theories

social psychology are one and the same; that organizations are the result of "repressed desires and ambivalent memories of ancient...

God's Existence and Morality

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Justice and Revenge in The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Electra by Euripides

"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Justice, Murderers, Susan Glaspell's Trifles and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

Morality According to Friedrich Nietzsche

meaning; however, it has a totally different meaning if one steals from a prosperous bakery in order to keep ones family from star...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

Morality and Personal Choice of Abortion

should be considered before deciding or not deciding on having an abortion. For this particular discussion, let us consider...

Health Care and End of Life Decisions

become a prominent question in the care of patients. Society and medical practitioners continually face many dilemmas at the end ...

Rule of Law and Morality

as the support of civilised and social community. He stated he did not believe that law should be based on any moral codes, in thi...

Virtue in Utopia by Sir Thomas More

until the Cardinal spoke, indicating that he took Hythlodays suggests seriously. Then the entire company began to voice general ap...

Thomas R. Eddlem's Journal Article on John Hancock

With his uncles death he inherited the business and while he was only 27 years old it seems he "managed his inheritance, the large...

Life of Thomas Paine

Excise (1772), arguing for a pay raise for officers."5 From the age of 19 onward for 24 years: "Paine held various jobs. He spent ...

Gattaca and the Ethical Dilemmas the Film Poses

dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...

Happiness and Virtue According to Boethius

reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...

Politics and Imaginary Dialogues

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

Law, Power, and Politics According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

Utopia of Socialism

theory could exist, if only individuals would work for the good of society instead of placing selfish aims above all else. Wells ...

Creating a Personal Ethical Philosophy

that this is wrong. They believe that there is an intrinsic morality and that women should not be executed for committing adultery...

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas and Socrates

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

Existence of God

goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...

Overview of 'Designer Babies'

In eight pages this paper considers the issue of 'designer babies' or babies who have been genetically manipulated in order to emb...

8 Significant Anglo Americans Who Lived Between the Years 1607 and 1763

metaphor to rule on cases concerning separation of church and state (1998). Daniel Boone is a legend. Like Jefferson, he was bor...

Ethics and Morality According to Martin Luther King Jr. and William Blake

him from within and turns him into a murderer. Blakes Songs of Experience have been described as an "unforgettable condemnation of...

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and Immanuel Kant's Ethics

this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...

Growth of America from the U.S. Contribution to the 1812 War

people as it respects the rights of individual states and the federal government. To that end, the rivalry between Thomas Jefferso...