Essays 241 - 270
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
play the desires of the majority, upon which this nation is primarily based. If the majority of the people, for example, believe t...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...
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...
own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...
aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...
a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...
avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...
could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....
the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...
(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...
is the right thing to do, even if it will make life much more difficult for the individuals involved. Others suggest that the fetu...
caring for the needs of others, rather than the needs of the self (Churchland, 2011, p. 14). These new behaviors are the very mech...
This essay asserts that "Everyman," the fifteenth century morality play, offer a perspective on death that is very analogous to th...
This essay discusses the topic of whether the government should try to legislate morality. Two pages in length, one source is cite...
Discusses the morality of the U.S. government's request of Apple to provide a hack to open the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino...
lock of her hair, the background to the event imbues it with a completely disproportionate quality of the melodramatic. Clarissa, ...
that was filed did not meet the criteria to dismiss such heinous a charge ("Lawyers Request To Dismiss Moms Charges Denied" ). The...
or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...
abstain from killing a little far? These religious groups arent necessarily taking the directive not to kill too far, rather, they...
a paternity test happening simply by blind chance is as low as .0001%. For this reason, paternity tests are considered scientifica...
morality, through exploring how public morality encourages deceit and dishonesty, causes distress and trauma, and ultimately destr...
as Victor envisioned but a hideous creature. If God created man in his own image then what does that say about Victors true nature...
determined by the goodness, or badness, of the results that flow from it" (Colosi 8). The second is the "hedonist principle," whic...
This essay presents the arguments that Hamlet had to be under the influence of intense emotion in order to overcome his indecision...
This essay discusses a specific theoretical foundation for humanitarianism called the theory of obligation which, in part, propose...
This essay considers how public policy is affected by religion, morality and worldview. Three pages in length, four sources are ci...