Essays 121 - 150
we first need to look at the developmental model of Piaget and what developments are seen as taking place at the different stages ...
socialism would emerge and then, finally, communism, which is the ideal society. Communism is the ultimate goal, but Marx only des...
ethical theory, utilitarianism and deontology often enter the picture. Mill (2001) for example, who is a utilitarian, claims that ...
situations where lying is attached to a greater good, no one can predict the future. The premise is therefore sound as a maxim. In...
(Durell, 2001). The child is involved in three types of knowledge and goes on to higher cognitive functioning through a variety o...
on television talk shows, as opposed to entertainment (such as movies or videos). This suggests that Zune is being structured to a...
what could be, seeing community as important and contingent on something he calls social capital. University Professor Robert D. ...
of the tragedy is that it is connected with the heros activities and it emphasizes human vulnerability (2005). To Aristotle, trage...
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...
are doing is unethical. Why? The majority of people are not environmental activists and they do not care about the trees. Of cours...
administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...
be wrong. Of course, one only has to look back half a century to see Martin Luther King, Jr. sitting in jail in Birmingham because...
anyone can do given a reasonable amount of training. Reich uses the example of AT&T and its phone assemblers. The company had a ...
words, living a life of virtue has its own implicit rewards some might equate with happiness, but the instant gratification achiev...
when we look at the drawing; this is the "concept" (Signs and language). These three terms work together to help explain how we as...
as it impedes upon the fundamental tenets of social responsibility. Doctors who accept these gifts - which might include but is n...
to the letter, which suggests that there may have been a flaw in his theory, but communism was by no means his only idea. Karl Mar...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...
some point, the fetus has a face, but perhaps cannot survive on its own. The question becomes whether or not this fetus is a human...
not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...
he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...
womens lives were a measurement in comparison to these male priorities and values. The life of a woman, in other words, was that ...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
lived in a society where multifetal pregnancy reduction was a socially acceptable alternative to the numerous fetuses produced by ...
trust the individuals in the position, or is a drug test needed? Utilitarianism supports the idea that the greater good is what i...
According to Kantian theory, private employee monitoring - at least, without informing the employee - is not moral, no matter how ...