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Veritatis Splendor by Pope John Paul II

goes so far in explaining life. The fact that science is embraced at all is significant, as the Pope does recognize the validity o...

John Stuart Mill and Drugs Legalization

prevailing arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on h...

Human Life in the Films Man Facing Southeast, A Short Film About Killing, and Taste of Cherry

the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...

The Trial Scene in A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

as those which the British themselves aspire to. Mahmoud...

The Sparrow by Mary D. Russell

conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...

Canto 3 of 'Inferno' by Dante

Dante used the framework of the poem to convey his ideas concerning religion and morality. An overview of Canto III and its level...

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...

Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor' and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne Compared

traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...

Government Should Not Legislate Morality

stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...

U.S. War With Iraq and Its Justifications

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

Utilitarianism and Morality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

Morality of Stem Cell Research

in bone marrow transplants, continues to rage on within the medical community. Proponents of umbilical cord blood usage for other...

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Morality and Religion According to Immanuel Kant

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

Kate Chopin and James Joyce

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

Overview of Learning

From this beginning, other theories involved that explain social behavior in terms of learning theory. According to social-learnin...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Consequences of Morality in The Republic by Plato

concepts that are far beyond his level of comprehension, only to ultimately be able to process the information. To reach true m...

Kant, Ethics, Drug Companies, and Drug Sales

as it impedes upon the fundamental tenets of social responsibility. Doctors who accept these gifts - which might include but is n...

Everyman A Critical Analysis

was assumed to make up to the overall personality of nay man, hence the title everyman, with seventeen characters representing a...

Workplace Values and Employee Morality

by dint of the fact they are the customers, and they are the ones paying the money for a product or service. Trust...

Personal Ethics Development

his relationship with God (Smith, 2001). Based on this description and my own upbringing and early training, my own decisions re...

Stem Cell Research and Issues of Christian Morality

The reason these cells are called stem cells is because they are like a stem, these cells are the source of every kind of tissue t...

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and the Concept of Morality

of his less knowledgeable subjects. There were several basic principals that Machiavelli put forth for his new princes-to-be. Fir...

United Kingdom and Methecillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

used antibiotics (Country Doctor). The rates are likely to be higher in long term care facilities and high dependency wards (Count...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Morality Past and Present

her husband who did not reside with her. As such she could not deny that she had an affair with someone. However, she would never ...

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 ...