YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :James Rachels on Morality
Essays 121 - 150
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...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...
though he had a good chance of full recovery. This suggests that patients be allowed to terminate their lives if they are in sever...
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...
social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...
Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...
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...
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...
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...
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...
friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...
had been deemed traditional. Many people around the world do not like American culture and it is hard to argue that this newfangle...
as the support of civilised and social community. He stated he did not believe that law should be based on any moral codes, in thi...
the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...
meaning; however, it has a totally different meaning if one steals from a prosperous bakery in order to keep ones family from star...
While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...
as Victor envisioned but a hideous creature. If God created man in his own image then what does that say about Victors true nature...
exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...
what happens to most of the people who are quarantined in Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, however, is different. The Narrator of the stor...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
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...
is the right thing to do, even if it will make life much more difficult for the individuals involved. Others suggest that the fetu...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...