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reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

availing the public with bits and pieces of peoples lives to which they would not otherwise be privy. Inasmuch as Internet commun...

could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

last thing they want to think about is whether or not their therapist is going to take advantage of the situation. However, as wi...

was receiving a congratulatory gift for his academic achievements, specifically, his 3.5 grade point average (Kansas City Star, 20...

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

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

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

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

young girls to become promiscuous (Gulli, 2006). These groups emphasize that abstinence is the best protection against sexually tr...

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

the pains he has felt, and that there are others whom he ought to conceive of as able to feel them too" (222). There is a distinc...

social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

Telemachus says: "But come, stay longer, keen as you are to sail, / so you can bathe and rest and lift your spirits, / then go bac...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...