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Essays 541 - 570
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...
of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...
existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
the people. For many individuals, the idea that resources should be redistributed, and that the very wealthy should be made to sh...
social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
(Norris, 2000). Dollar Though Norris acknowledges that the dollar continues to reign supreme (despite the growing strengt...
stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...
own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...
education, in fact, is providing us the skills that will allow us to do just that. Communication skills play a large role in busi...
smacks of anarchy. As long as we dont "hurt" anyone, anything goes. Absolute truth has been discarded. It would seem that there is...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
in bone marrow transplants, continues to rage on within the medical community. Proponents of umbilical cord blood usage for other...
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
play the desires of the majority, upon which this nation is primarily based. If the majority of the people, for example, believe t...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
are organized within the government in order to carry out specific tasks that the society deems necessary. For example, they provi...
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...
is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
than just law, justice is the product of morals and ethics (Kropotkin, 1923). Three philosophical frameworks in particular can be...
aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...
the adult world of constraints into an exciting world of fun in the sun, the children come up against the usual banes of social ex...
a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...
of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...