YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :David Hume and How Morality Originated
Essays 301 - 330
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...
than just law, justice is the product of morals and ethics (Kropotkin, 1923). Three philosophical frameworks in particular can be...
and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...
this inquiry is something more. It is attached to religion and doctrine and the canon. In fact, any individuals memories may be ti...
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...
drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...
the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...
had been deemed traditional. Many people around the world do not like American culture and it is hard to argue that this newfangle...
the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
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...
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...
to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...
From this beginning, other theories involved that explain social behavior in terms of learning theory. According to social-learnin...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
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...
suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...
in bone marrow transplants, continues to rage on within the medical community. Proponents of umbilical cord blood usage for other...
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...
the morality, or immorality, of his actions. He does, of course seem to realize that much of what he lost, long ago, was lost when...
play is Everyman, who obviously stands for everyone in the audience. This is play designed to teach a lesson, and the lesson is si...
just as problematic when tied to an ordinary citizen as it is for a police officer, the government sees that the motive is differe...