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Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Golden Rule and Egoism

is the right thing to do, even if it will make life much more difficult for the individuals involved. Others suggest that the fetu...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Toleration as Defined in 'A Letter Concerning Toleration' by John Locke

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

Immanuel Kant on Morality

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

An Analysis of Machiavelli's The Prince

of the government was quick and without "civil commotion." But while Machiavelli praises Agathocles on one hand, he also points ...

Six Argument Schemas

employed. PREMISE 2: Self-defense must correlate with reasonableness. PREMISE 3: Both law and morality must play a role in the e...

Justification of the Iraq War and Other Alternative Perspectives

just cause war. According to Sterba, there are three criteria that constitute a just war. "There must be substantial aggressio...

Morality, Justice and Books I and II of The Republic by Plato

"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...

La Traviata Opera by Giuseppe Verdi

search of what she calls new delights, but she would soon realize that love was what gives life meaning (1998). One might think th...

Comparative Analysis of Dworkin and Devlin on Morality in Society

way in which the ideas are created but rather because there is a lack of autonomy. He does not view morality as something that is ...

James Rachels on Morality

theorists equate it with the use of common sense. Again, it may be argued that homosexuality is not natural because the sexual org...

Common Denominator in Works by Walzer, Bellah et al, and Etzioni

exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...

Argumentative Paper on Morality and Relativism

smacks of anarchy. As long as we dont "hurt" anyone, anything goes. Absolute truth has been discarded. It would seem that there is...

Morality Tale Vathek by William Beckford

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the Elements of Fairy Tale

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

Man's Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and William Golding

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...

C.S. Lewis and Catholic Morality Instruction

of difficulty taking a strong stand on what is right and wrong. Kilpatrick addressed this issue: if the adults in the childs life ...

Abortion from the Christian Perspective

(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

'Theory of Moral Sentiment' by Adam Smith

could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...

Business and the Role of Ethics

system is well designed then it may even be their own job that becomes redundant (Taylor and Moynihan, 2002). Here we see that IT...

Morality and the Sensibility of Thomas Hobbes

it followeth necessarily when they that have the government of religion shall come to have either the wisdom of those men, their s...

Aristotle's Legal Defense of a Guilty Man

and then define the perfect solution to problems that might arise. Aristotle claimed that: "I have gained this from philosophy: I ...

How Shirley Jackson Employs Allegory in Her Tale, 'The Possibility of Evil'

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

Morality Enforcement and the Law

as burglary and even bigamy, where offenders may be granted a higher sentence, and as such we need to question the morals of a soc...

Philosophical Conjecture and Morality

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

Reasons for Punishment According to Friedrich Nietzsche

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...