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with but one thought in mind: create as much profit as possible. It is difficult to condemn such a worldview because of how cultur...

student explore the profundity of the ideological shift represented by de Pisan and Machiavelli. To be certain, the advocation of ...

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 ...

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

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...

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

legislation: where the two conflict, national laws are subordinate to those of the EU. If judges are uncertain as to how a ruling ...

Morality (age 4 - 10) - This is when moral value resides in what the person needs and wants for himself (Laurence Kohlberg, 2002)....

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

result in drugs no being developed. Conversely, where the drugs are required, and profits are being made in the developed ...

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

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....

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...

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 ...

1976). This concept is an extension of the Gala hypothesis explained by Dawkins (1976) in which "the global living world can be lo...

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

one of irony as the opening scene in this movie continues. Cabiria and her lover are frolicking in a field. It is portrayed as som...