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Looking at Ethics Personally

thirdly the contemplative" life" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E.). Here, Aristotle divides life into types. Such a typology is applicable t...

Addiction and Kohlberg and Adler

and their attempts to fulfill their desires (Boeree, 1997). This leads to a lack of social interest or concern (Boeree, 1997). On...

A Character and Thematic Comparison of Desiree's Baby and Antlers

knowledge that Desiree has gone to her death, even though Arnaud will have to cope with a revelation that shakes the foundations o...

Trading Floor Conflict Harvard Case Study

be able to live with himself if he follows orders and faxes information that is at best misleading. Another ethical dilemma for ...

Morality Theory of Immanuel Kant

physical body to be sold, for the enjoyment of others, is tantamount to transforming the human body into a physical object. Kant...

Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy and the Concept of Rights

the issue of rights we may start with the theoretical foundation of the role that rights and the way these are seen in terms of e...

Health Care Delivery and Various Moral, Philosophical, and Ethical Issues

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

Social Importance of Moral Right Theory

the other rights come from and then they spread like branches (Joffrain, 2001). This view sees a work as "an extension of the cre...

Gattaca and the Ethical Dilemmas the Film Poses

dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...

Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...

Virtue Critiques in Billy Budd, Sailor and 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...

Applying Stephen Covey's Principle Centered Leadership

Deming (1986) admonished American business to adopt a democratic management style with small doses of authoritative measures only ...

Abortion, Government, and Morality

what necessarily constitutes morality for another. In light of this the government has no ultimate control over an individuals own...

Who am I? Self Concept Consideration

who one is, murder is deemed to be wrong. It is ones duty to find other means of solving ones problems than to simply murder the o...

Emotions and Moral Decision Making

life of one individual for the greater good, for the lives of all the others on the trolley (Helmuth, 2001). But if the same indi...

Film Documentaries and Traumatic or Moral Dilemma Representations

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and Immanuel Kant's Ethics

this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...

Determination, Free Will, and Incompatibilism

system and ones desires, but there must still be an element of freedom if one is to turn those desires into action. Compati...

Happiness and Virtue According to Boethius

reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...

The Octomom Has Done Nothing Immoral

sympathy when they cannot have children on their own and so in vitro is supported. Another issue goes to money. Many people believ...

Views on Abortion

or not having the right to life" (Marquis 241). Therefore, Marquis, more or less, examines what it is that makes killing any human...

U.S. Foreign Policy, Just War Theory, and the Persian Gulf War

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

Characterization in Crash

Rican descent. Graham would undoubtedly not identity himself as racist, yet he fails to remember that Ria is Puerto Rican, not Mex...

Moral Standing and the Instigation of War

up an age-old question, particularly if the two groups are in another country: should a nation risk its own troops to get in the m...

Isolation: How It Leads To Altered Behavior

of something he never anticipated to occur. When he did see the undesirable transition his "guards" were taking with regard to tr...

The Ethical Philosophy and Moral Actions of Pope John Paul II

study of philosophy; it is a Church that asks questions, even when the answers may be difficult to accept. The members of the Soci...

Development - Self-Appraisal

but otherwise, they are content with companions or short-term relationships. Erikson identified love and affiliation as outcomes...

What Made Sparta a Military Power?

BC). Lycurgus was responsible for encouraging Spartan civic duty to the commonwealth; developing a social structure designed to s...

There Should Be Intervention in Darfur

complicated than that. There is a sense that the Sudanese are being unfair to the people of Darfur, and also that those who live i...

Mindreading and Morality

A 3 page research paper that summarizes and analyzes two articles on how mindreading, i.e., empathy, is related to moral behavior....