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A Story by a Slave Trader

book appears to be a candid recollection by someone who was not troubled enough by what he was doing to stop it. Theodore Conneau...

Euthanasia, Abortion, and Social Ethics

In six pages this paper analyzes chapters one and two from the Thomas Mappe and Jane Zembaty edited Social Ethics: Morality and So...

Medicinal Marijuana Use and Ethical Issues

is anecdotal. Nevertheless, for many physicians, it is hard to argue with the results they seem to see personally. In prescrib...

Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide, and Ethics

In ten pages this paper considers the act of physician assisted suicide from a perspective of ethics and morality and determines t...

An Essay on Animal Rights 2

This issues involved with animal rights are considered in this essay of five pages and discusses the positions of activists Tom Re...

Plato and Confucius on the State and Society

In eleven pages this research paper contrasts and compares Plato's and Confucius's perceptions on the ruling state and society wit...

Turbulence and Taoism Approaches

In six pages this research paper examines the feudal China origins of Taoism in a consideration of its principles, characteristics...

Business Applicability and Common Morality

truth. Six very simple, very basic principles that people in general should be able to handle without too much difficulty. In re...

Materialism and Ethics Links

In five pages the connection between devoid morality and material wealth is examined with the argument being that pursuit of mater...

A Consideration of the Question Why Should I be Moral?

In this four page essay the writer turns to the philosophies of August Comte for an answer to the enduring question of why moralit...

Philosophers on Morality

In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...

Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche

concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...

'Good Life' and Personal Ethics

not to take action. Self-defense is one defense of murder that has not only moral acceptability in our culture, but also excuses ...

Theoretical Application of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant's Philosophies

In six pages this paper examines how the morality theories of these philosophers can be practically applied. Two sources are cite...

Morals and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper discusses morality in a consideration of Immanuel Kant's theories in an examination of the universal free...

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...

If God Did Not Exist, Would Morality Exist?

the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...

India and the Harmful Effects of Globalization

had been deemed traditional. Many people around the world do not like American culture and it is hard to argue that this newfangle...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

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...

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...

The Morality of a Materialistic Society

While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...

Morality Enforcement and the Government's Role

than just law, justice is the product of morals and ethics (Kropotkin, 1923). Three philosophical frameworks in particular can be...

Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7:29

and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...

Morality and Ethics

in terms of a code of ethics, such as seen perhaps in something like the Ten Commandments. Morality needs the study of ethics in o...

Morality According to Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche

to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence and Morality Exploration Through Memory

this inquiry is something more. It is attached to religion and doctrine and the canon. In fact, any individuals memories may be ti...

Patricia Duncker's Betrayal

they are part of a modern world where they are clearly in and out of relationships all the time. The fact that they continue to al...

Tim O'Brien and Upton Sinclair on Morality

drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...