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controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
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...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...
avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...
could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....
(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...
is the right thing to do, even if it will make life much more difficult for the individuals involved. Others suggest that the fetu...
element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...
a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...
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 ...
aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...
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...
as Victor envisioned but a hideous creature. If God created man in his own image then what does that say about Victors true nature...
abstain from killing a little far? These religious groups arent necessarily taking the directive not to kill too far, rather, they...
a paternity test happening simply by blind chance is as low as .0001%. For this reason, paternity tests are considered scientifica...
determined by the goodness, or badness, of the results that flow from it" (Colosi 8). The second is the "hedonist principle," whic...
the people. For many individuals, the idea that resources should be redistributed, and that the very wealthy should be made to sh...
of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...
friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...
social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...
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...
had been deemed traditional. Many people around the world do not like American culture and it is hard to argue that this newfangle...
Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...
drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...
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...
to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...