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Pot's Illegality

In eight pages this paper considers the reasons behind the illegality of marijuana from ethical and moral perspectives. Six sourc...

Behavior Management and Ethics

were less than effective in their handling of chronic behavior management problems were not faulted for their lack of behavior man...

Immanuel Kant and Deontology

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...

Limited Liability and Justifying It Philosophically

Rawlsian justice is concerned with the idea of justice being fair and good, and it has a hope that social institutions do not give...

Barriers to Intimate Care

profession barrier that gives the confidence in the carers, so that the person being cared for feels that they are safe, both phys...

The Philosophy of Utilitariansim

on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...

Beck, Wright, Sowell, Berger, and Courtwright Idea Connection

attitudes and our approaches to society. With this simple illustration of Courtwrights work in mind we present similar ideas found...

Good and Evil Morality Concepts

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

Ethics and Religion According to Augustine and Aristotle

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

Kantian Concepts of Morality

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

Overview of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

Philosophy, Ethics, and 'Doing the Right Thing'

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

Worldly Circumstance and Moral Worth

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

Moral and Ethical Decisions in Business

(Himma, 2003). Throughout their lifetime, individuals are presented with moral dilemmas and situations in which they must make a ...

America and Catholicism

and symbols of faith, Catholics are able to participate in their religion, which serves a variety of sociological and psychologica...

Exotic Dancing and Moral Nihilism

who has decided to take up smoking, go for an extended trip to the country, or fix dinner. "What I relate," Nietzsche wrote in The...

Plato's 'Gyge's Ring'

at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Christianity History and Significance of 'Church Order'

holding certain truths? The members of the Church are united, not by their belief in certain men, but by their belief in certain ...

RU 486 and Hoechst Roussel Pharmaceuticals Inc.

not in conflict with models of corporate governance such as Milton Friedmans shareholder wealth maximisation model. Other interest...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...

Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant on Killing and Morals

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

Gilgamesh, Sir Gawain, and Their Representation of Moral Values

women. According to Tablet I, Column ii, "Gilgamesh is a fate alive... He knew the secret paths that reached the eagles nest abov...

Flawed Arguments and Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage

purpose" (Cross, 2002). Opponents to same-sex marriages also oppose gay activists appeal to pity in regards to their arguments. Th...

Ethics and Legalities of Health Care

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

Chestnutt skilfully exposes the irony of these attitudes through the interaction between the various family members, where the dis...

Roman Polanski's Film Chinatown and Characters Katherine Cross and Evelyn Mulwray

When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

Moral Reasoning Theories of Kohlberg and Piaget

It goes without saying that there exists an inherent difference in the aggressive tendencies of males and females. This differenc...

The 'Moral' of Abortion

Accutane even for a short time are at great risk of having a baby with severe facial birth defects, malformed thymus glands, and m...