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Acts of Violence and Hamlet

This essay presents the arguments that Hamlet had to be under the influence of intense emotion in order to overcome his indecision...

Miller, Hawthorne, and the Impacts of Public Morality

morality, through exploring how public morality encourages deceit and dishonesty, causes distress and trauma, and ultimately destr...

A Qualified Defense of Singer

determined by the goodness, or badness, of the results that flow from it" (Colosi 8). The second is the "hedonist principle," whic...

Theoretical Foundation for Humanitarianism

This essay discusses a specific theoretical foundation for humanitarianism called the theory of obligation which, in part, propose...

Public Policy and Religion, Morality, Worldview

This essay considers how public policy is affected by religion, morality and worldview. Three pages in length, four sources are ci...

The Safe to Sleep Campaign, SIDS

This research paper discusses the Safe to Sleep campaign, which is a promotion effort designed to address the infant morality caus...

Morality and Neuroscience - A study of Churchland

caring for the needs of others, rather than the needs of the self (Churchland, 2011, p. 14). These new behaviors are the very mech...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Morality of the Will and the Theories of Immanuel Kant

the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...

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...

Friendship Breakdown, Morality, and Logic

friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...

Stem Cell Research: Argument Against

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Without God, Would Morality be Possible?

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

The Extent to Which Assumptions are Used in the Decision Making Process

wet because a toddler had an "accident" or there is blood everywhere because someone was murdered. Clearly, the bed might have bee...

Place Of Religious Experience In Lawrence Kohlberg's Ideas Of Human Development

social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...

Autobiography of Oladauh Equiano

own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...