YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Philosophers on Morality
Essays 391 - 420
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...
in terms of a code of ethics, such as seen perhaps in something like the Ten Commandments. Morality needs the study of ethics in o...
smacks of anarchy. As long as we dont "hurt" anyone, anything goes. Absolute truth has been discarded. It would seem that there is...
and reflection question : In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pictures a religious and moral orientation that draws on Jewish tradit...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
While in our society we have the right to eat, wear, and live in anything that we can afford, to do so is not always morally sound...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
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...
than just law, justice is the product of morals and ethics (Kropotkin, 1923). Three philosophical frameworks in particular can be...
controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
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...
to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...
be learned about business as a Christian calling from the Bible" (Roels 357). The first point that Roels is that business, like ...
accepted element in some of the more primitive of the worlds societies, more advanced societies have historically regarded promisc...
friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...
that rules, in and of themselves, are not sacred or absolute (Crain, 2009). For example, if a child hears a scenario in which one ...
night and gives the field its reputation for obscurity. Reaction to the meaning of the text: Having said all that, what does the ...
play is Everyman, who obviously stands for everyone in the audience. This is play designed to teach a lesson, and the lesson is si...
just as problematic when tied to an ordinary citizen as it is for a police officer, the government sees that the motive is differe...
the morality, or immorality, of his actions. He does, of course seem to realize that much of what he lost, long ago, was lost when...
of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...
he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...
though he had a good chance of full recovery. This suggests that patients be allowed to terminate their lives if they are in sever...
even when it comes to anonymous tip lines. The drug dealer will figure out who called and then, that endangers the life of the tip...
of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...
the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...
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...