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get what they want. After all, sacrifice usually ends up creating martyrs. This theory is aligned with the current notion that cap...
further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...
todays society, but the search for contentment goes back centuries. For many searchers, happiness comes and goes, but it is a popu...
This paper examines how the human concept of virtue and its pursuit influence human nature and society within the context of the t...
In an essay that consists of five pages Aristotle's lofty view of pride as the ultimate virtue is discussed within the context of ...
subdivided into passions and reason (Yu 323). So, too, was his moral character, which explained how man could exist as both a soc...
In seven pages this paper applies Christine Sommers' edited text Vice and Virtue to an analysis of the ethics represented in the f...
perceived as many as a disruptive social group, but for the members, there is no greater ethical or virtuous element than the dedi...
In five pages the motivating force represented by virtue ethics regarding actions is the focus of this argumentative essay. Five ...
In four pages the ways in which Aristotle believes virtue is acquired within the perspective of prudence as discussed in his treat...
deem as acceptable. The concept of a rational society, in which the entire community is greatly influenced by principles its mem...
direct encounter with value occurs in the experience of pleasure. Delight or felt satisfaction was, according to his official vie...
causes them to prefer intellectual pleasures over sensual ones. He continues in his thinking to assume that the principle of utili...
are a small minority (we hope). It is important for scientists to not get so intent on proving one thing or another that they vi...
1. the best in the moral philosophy of all ages and places; 2. the moral standards of Christendom; 3. the ethics of the Christian ...
is one alternative in deriving a moral theory when considering a variety of philosophical models. Above all, it is simplistic. And...
the greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...
business ethics. The first, they maintain, was launched in the defense industry during the 1980s, when reports of military contrac...
the expense of so many others? Indeed not, inasmuch as Sarahs mistake cannot be expected to cost one hundred innocent lives over ...
action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...
to do with whether or not the act increased or decreased overall happiness or whether they have utility. Acts are evaluated based ...
Washington Medical Center, Seattle, and a clinical instructor, bio behavioral nursing and health systems, at the University of Was...
up with perhaps the earliest fully developed system of utilitarianism, of which two prominent features are noteworthy ("Utilitari...
complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...
this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...
(Larue, 1998). This value determination was given a moral rationalization and basis through interpretations of scripture and relig...
the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...
be serious diseases amongst the populace. By mandating it for the greater good, as it is something that will help the greatest num...
In five pages virtues and their relativity are debated by Aristotelian philosophy and an argument by Martha Nussbaum featured in ...
This 5 page paper explores the concepts of virtue and self-discipline and how self-discipline applies to virtue in Toni Morrison's...