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Statutory Interpretation: Hubert and the Idea of Moral Turpitude

doing so. Perhaps he knew people who were about to be drafted, or perhaps he had a moral objection to the Vietnam War, in which th...

Aristotle and the Role of Moral Education

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

Moral and Social Education in Book IV of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Emile Or, On Education

the pains he has felt, and that there are others whom he ought to conceive of as able to feel them too" (222). There is a distinc...

Moral and Ethical Principles Learned from The Odyssey

Telemachus says: "But come, stay longer, keen as you are to sail, / so you can bathe and rest and lift your spirits, / then go bac...

Green Burials: An Economic, Ecological, and Moral Alternative

of a clinical phenomena, a phenomena for which there is little involvement either of the person dying or of that persons family an...

John Proctor in "The Crucible": Moral Dilemma

strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p. 487). She is convinced that she ...

John Proctor in The Crucible: A Moral Dilemma

as a witch. As the play progresses, suspicion grows on all sides, until the only way to stop the madness is for John to tell the ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...

Morals Enforcement and Parliamentary Sovereignty

In ten pages this paper discusses parliamentary sovereignty in a consideration of legislatively enforcing morals. Six sources are...

Environment and Moral Pluralism

one thing, the variety of the species is one reason there are many different theories; each species could require a different type...

Moral Duty and Physical Fitness

a particular society....

Healthcare, Ages, Decision Making, and Medical Moral Issues

In sixteen pages this paper concentrates on the United Kingdom in a consideration of whether or not it is moral for healthcare res...

Peter Railton's 'Moral Realism' Essay

Aquinas reasoned that morality is grounded in "principles that are fixed in nature...and discernible by reason" (Anonymous, 2002)....

Cloning of Human Beings Should Not Be Allowed for Religious, Scientific, and Moral Reasons

womb, is upon the world. These are issues of science fiction, but as time goes on they become science fact, a situation that has t...

Moral Education According to Aristotle

the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive and in the right way. He states in Book II, "The moral virtues,...

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

Origins of Moral Virtue

as it applies to moral virtue is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotation to its concept; howeve...

Moral Issues Involving the Death Penalty

innocent person to be found guilty. On the other hand proponents of the death penalty look on DNA technology as a powerful safegua...

Consideration of Moral Conflict

family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...

Good Will and Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

any experience they may have gained in this aspect. Rational beings need not confer with others in order to determine a true good ...

Driving, Drinking, Legal and Moral Responsibilities

legal, however recent harm reduction programs which were previously used for illicit drug use are now being applied to those who d...

Moral Freedom According to Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill

for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...

Moral and Intellectual Impotence of Shakespeare's Hamlet

father, as he speculates that the specter could have been a devil that assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into s...

Circumstances in Which Abortion is Moral

indeed, at the very least it would certainly cost her a partnership in the firm, thereby impeding upon her objective to run for of...

Moral Virtues of Benjamin Franklin

chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...

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...

Making Moral Decisions and Emotional Processing

benefits that can be derived from this kind of research, including a greater understanding of the role that emotions play in socia...

Moral Standing of Animal Rights

rights advocates argue that because of this many American live hypocritical lives as while they treat and believe their domestic a...

Drinking, Driving, Moral and Legal Obligations

in contact with drinkers to take action against them. From a legal perspective, the Canadian Restaurant and Food Associatio...