YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :David Hume and How Morality Originated
Essays 301 - 330
This essay presents the arguments that Hamlet had to be under the influence of intense emotion in order to overcome his indecision...
morality, through exploring how public morality encourages deceit and dishonesty, causes distress and trauma, and ultimately destr...
determined by the goodness, or badness, of the results that flow from it" (Colosi 8). The second is the "hedonist principle," whic...
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...
This research paper discusses the Safe to Sleep campaign, which is a promotion effort designed to address the infant morality caus...
caring for the needs of others, rather than the needs of the self (Churchland, 2011, p. 14). These new behaviors are the very mech...
meaning; however, it has a totally different meaning if one steals from a prosperous bakery in order to keep ones family from star...
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...
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...
and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
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...
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 ...
than just law, justice is the product of morals and ethics (Kropotkin, 1923). Three philosophical frameworks in particular can be...
this inquiry is something more. It is attached to religion and doctrine and the canon. In fact, any individuals memories may be ti...
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 consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...
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...
friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...
of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...
wet because a toddler had an "accident" or there is blood everywhere because someone was murdered. Clearly, the bed might have bee...
social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...
own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...