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Essays 541 - 570

Morality Theory of Immanuel Kant

physical body to be sold, for the enjoyment of others, is tantamount to transforming the human body into a physical object. Kant...

Examining Suicide from a Fresh Perspective

suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...

Looking at Ethics Personally

thirdly the contemplative" life" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E.). Here, Aristotle divides life into types. Such a typology is applicable t...

A Character and Thematic Comparison of Desiree's Baby and Antlers

knowledge that Desiree has gone to her death, even though Arnaud will have to cope with a revelation that shakes the foundations o...

Characters of Othello by William Shakespeare

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

Capital Punishment from Ethical and Moral Perspectives

deterrence is concerned, according to Lippke, "Research into the deterrent effects of the death penalty... has failed to show that...

Egoism, Altruism, and Moral Development

the personality traits by which he will be governed his whole life. Habits, then, can foster a good life by directing the person t...

5 'Golden Threads' and Their Implications

and Shared Minds Implications for business are clear. All of these threads weave together in the effective organization to...

Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

Spirituality, Cultural Ethnocentrism, and Narcissism in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

of the Old South, which is where she bases her identity. She sees the antebellum era and everything about the Southern values in t...

Policies on Dating in the Workplace

times, one person is pursued by another, but the advances are unwanted. This too can result in a suit. Finally, uncomfortable situ...

Determination, Free Will, and Incompatibilism

system and ones desires, but there must still be an element of freedom if one is to turn those desires into action. Compati...

Film Documentaries and Traumatic or Moral Dilemma Representations

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and Immanuel Kant's Ethics

this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...

James Rachels' and Opposing Moral Relativism

beyond culture. Humans have intrinsic morality. The student goes on to explain that James Rachels does argue that point and claim...

Happiness and Virtue According to Boethius

reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...

Health Care Delivery and Various Moral, Philosophical, and Ethical Issues

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...

Virtue Critiques in Billy Budd, Sailor and 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...

Social Importance of Moral Right Theory

the other rights come from and then they spread like branches (Joffrain, 2001). This view sees a work as "an extension of the cre...

Gattaca and the Ethical Dilemmas the Film Poses

dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...

Emotions and Moral Decision Making

life of one individual for the greater good, for the lives of all the others on the trolley (Helmuth, 2001). But if the same indi...

Applying Stephen Covey's Principle Centered Leadership

Deming (1986) admonished American business to adopt a democratic management style with small doses of authoritative measures only ...

Abortion, Government, and Morality

what necessarily constitutes morality for another. In light of this the government has no ultimate control over an individuals own...

Who am I? Self Concept Consideration

who one is, murder is deemed to be wrong. It is ones duty to find other means of solving ones problems than to simply murder the o...

Socrates and Odysseus

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...

Irony in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Prologue

a Prioresse/That of hir smiling was ful simple and coy./Hir gretteste ooth was but by saint Loy!/And she was cleped Madam Eglantin...

Modern Warfare and WMD Justification

was not going to tolerate anything like this battle again, finding itself compelled to drill this fact home to the Japanese. "If ...

Ownership, the Internet, and Copyrights

emotional pain? Should she ethically bring a suit if she has a legal right to do so? Who would the defendant be?...

Themes of Cultural and Moral Relativism

tribes would simply allow certain effeminate men to take on female occupations (153). Seemingly, their plight was accepted. They w...