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Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...

Film Documentaries and Traumatic or Moral Dilemma Representations

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and Immanuel Kant's Ethics

this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...

Policies on Dating in the Workplace

times, one person is pursued by another, but the advances are unwanted. This too can result in a suit. Finally, uncomfortable situ...

Determination, Free Will, and Incompatibilism

system and ones desires, but there must still be an element of freedom if one is to turn those desires into action. Compati...

Happiness and Virtue According to Boethius

reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...

Social Importance of Moral Right Theory

the other rights come from and then they spread like branches (Joffrain, 2001). This view sees a work as "an extension of the cre...

Gattaca and the Ethical Dilemmas the Film Poses

dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...

Emotions and Moral Decision Making

life of one individual for the greater good, for the lives of all the others on the trolley (Helmuth, 2001). But if the same indi...

Ethics and Morality According to Martin Luther King Jr. and William Blake

him from within and turns him into a murderer. Blakes Songs of Experience have been described as an "unforgettable condemnation of...

Moral Living from a Christian Viewpoint

a relationship with Him, cultivating that relationship is possible. Further, the relationship with God is personal. Despite the fa...

Adolescence and Moral Development

drops out of society or gets into a car accident. They may be on the road to addiction, which can be life changing and even end in...

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...

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 ...

Characters of Othello by William Shakespeare

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

Capital Punishment from Ethical and Moral Perspectives

deterrence is concerned, according to Lippke, "Research into the deterrent effects of the death penalty... has failed to show that...

Egoism, Altruism, and Moral Development

the personality traits by which he will be governed his whole life. Habits, then, can foster a good life by directing the person t...

Spirituality, Cultural Ethnocentrism, and Narcissism in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

of the Old South, which is where she bases her identity. She sees the antebellum era and everything about the Southern values in t...

Euthanasia and Opposition to Its Practice

The arguments in support of euthanasia center around quality of life issues, pain and suffering, and the common good (Kowalski, 19...

'Love Thy Neighbor' and Jewish Morality

the pot-bellied stove; everything else was either burned to the ground or damaged beyond repair from smoke and/or water. It was o...

Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy and the Concept of Rights

the issue of rights we may start with the theoretical foundation of the role that rights and the way these are seen in terms of e...

Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

Examining Suicide from a Fresh Perspective

suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...

Looking at Ethics Personally

thirdly the contemplative" life" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E.). Here, Aristotle divides life into types. Such a typology is applicable t...

Applying Stephen Covey's Principle Centered Leadership

Deming (1986) admonished American business to adopt a democratic management style with small doses of authoritative measures only ...

Abortion, Government, and Morality

what necessarily constitutes morality for another. In light of this the government has no ultimate control over an individuals own...

Trading Floor Conflict Harvard Case Study

be able to live with himself if he follows orders and faxes information that is at best misleading. Another ethical dilemma for ...

Morality Theory of Immanuel Kant

physical body to be sold, for the enjoyment of others, is tantamount to transforming the human body into a physical object. Kant...

Addiction and Kohlberg and Adler

and their attempts to fulfill their desires (Boeree, 1997). This leads to a lack of social interest or concern (Boeree, 1997). On...