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considered moral to steal or lie. Anti-abortion activists have taken this a step further, considering their murdering of abortion ...
that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...
a man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). "Work" is not always something that returns money as a reward or p...
Oath. This was traditionally taken by all graduating doctors, but many institutions do not insist on it toady. The original oath h...
In seventeen pages the collapses of several structural buildings in Asia are discussed in a consideration of design ethics and com...
there are other outside influences. In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can aff...
life, white lies can protect people from hurt feelings. They can be used to motivate others to do good things. There are sometimes...
new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
the primary location where policy is derived. There are myriad ethical considerations in the daily world of business, and each on...
there is a contradiction. Good will should be implemented, but at the same time, there is a sense that relying on such ideas, or s...
ethical theory, utilitarianism and deontology often enter the picture. Mill (2001) for example, who is a utilitarian, claims that ...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...
the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...
points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...
sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
other ends. Such an end might already exist, or might be something which the actor strives to bring about by his actions. In 4:428...
because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...