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U.S. War With Iraq and Its Justifications

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor' and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne Compared

traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...

Government Should Not Legislate Morality

stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...

Morality Tale Vathek by William Beckford

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the Elements of Fairy Tale

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

Morality Enforcement and the Government's Role

than just law, justice is the product of morals and ethics (Kropotkin, 1923). Three philosophical frameworks in particular can be...

Morality and Ethics

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...

Morality According to Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche

to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

Kate Chopin and James Joyce

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

Morality and Whether Or Not It Can Exist Without God

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

Mother and Daughter Relationships in Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

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...

Overview of Learning

From this beginning, other theories involved that explain social behavior in terms of learning theory. According to social-learnin...

Morality and Religion According to Immanuel Kant

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

Toleration as Defined in 'A Letter Concerning Toleration' by John Locke

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah, Joe Klein's Primary Colors, and Political Ethics

lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...

Common Denominator in Works by Walzer, Bellah et al, and Etzioni

exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...

The Plague by Albert Camus and the Ethics of Morality and Responsibility

what happens to most of the people who are quarantined in Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, however, is different. The Narrator of the stor...

Immanuel Kant on Morality

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Autobiography of Oladauh Equiano

own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...

Argumentative Paper on Morality and Relativism

smacks of anarchy. As long as we dont "hurt" anyone, anything goes. Absolute truth has been discarded. It would seem that there is...

Man's Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and William Golding

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...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

Golden Rule and Egoism

is the right thing to do, even if it will make life much more difficult for the individuals involved. Others suggest that the fetu...

Happiness and Morality According to Aristotle

a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...

Four Films and Their Portrayal of Crime and Judicial Procedures

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...