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Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Book of Duchess Narrators

In seven pages this paper examines the narrator's moral and reader influence in these works by Geoffrey Chaucer. There are no oth...

Morality According to Kant and Mill

In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...

Moral Theories of Aristotle and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this paper discusses Aristotle and J.S. Mill in a contrast and comparison of their moral philosophies. Two sources ...

Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

J. Baird Callicott and Environmental Ethics

necessity must be maintained by man but are not included in the overall schema of environmental ethics. This holds true because d...

Industrial Pollution and Moral Philosophy

a toxic substance. When corporations repeatedly break the rules regarding environmental protection, it says in a very loud voice ...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Human Morality

correct, or is it morally superior to allow a twelve year old rape victim to have an abortion? The problem with morality is that i...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

Ethical Theories of David Hume

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

Obligation and Impulse in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

books in particular undergo a metamorphosis in regard to the way that they deal with the eternal conflict between impulse and obli...

Expression, Morality, and the 'Ethics' of Pornography

dilemma. Smut? Or Artistic Expression? Pornography, which can encompass everything from finely developed...

High School and Career Counseling

a Christian perspective, biblical references can be shown which indicate that each individual has a purpose and a destiny to fulfi...

Prostitution and Perceptions of the 18th Century

of friendship and acceptance brings the woman to the point where she feels remorse and wants to repent. She begins to cry and apo...

Ownership, the Internet, and Copyrights

emotional pain? Should she ethically bring a suit if she has a legal right to do so? Who would the defendant be?...

Themes of Cultural and Moral Relativism

tribes would simply allow certain effeminate men to take on female occupations (153). Seemingly, their plight was accepted. They w...

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

Mr. Death Film and The Picture of Dorian Gray

In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

Modern Warfare and WMD Justification

was not going to tolerate anything like this battle again, finding itself compelled to drill this fact home to the Japanese. "If ...

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...

Socrates and Odysseus

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...

Irony in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Prologue

a Prioresse/That of hir smiling was ful simple and coy./Hir gretteste ooth was but by saint Loy!/And she was cleped Madam Eglantin...

Moral Education and Personal Philosophy

being more or less universally accepted, teachers tend to be reluctant to discuss character education and moral development (Richm...

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...

Moral and Physical Resistance During the Holocaust Depicted in The Book and Film Versions of Jacob the Liar and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several ...

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...

Theories Moral and Social-Cognitive Development

bridge from behavior theorists to social theorists (Davis, 2006). It encompasses some of the foundations of each field. Bandura wa...