YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :David Hume and How Morality Originated
Essays 331 - 360
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...
social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...
even when it comes to anonymous tip lines. The drug dealer will figure out who called and then, that endangers the life of the tip...
of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...
of difficulty taking a strong stand on what is right and wrong. Kilpatrick addressed this issue: if the adults in the childs life ...
own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...
smacks of anarchy. As long as we dont "hurt" anyone, anything goes. Absolute truth has been discarded. It would seem that there is...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
giant metal man falling into the sea. Hogarth is the only one that believes him and rushes away to search in likely places for the...
(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...
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...
aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...
a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...
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...