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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...

result in drugs no being developed. Conversely, where the drugs are required, and profits are being made in the developed ...

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

study, many infants actually died as a result because the women could not properly store the man-made food. Here, the moral dile...

in order for the public to have trust in law enforcement officers. This is particularly true as there is evidence that trust in la...

inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, the only life worth living" (Frost, 1962, 84). As this de...

could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....

so many things that Everyman had hoped to have done by the time Death arrived. As it is, Death has arrived and Everyman must make ...

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

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

the consequences (Honderich, 1995). Thus, in the argument presented above, it would not be necessarily wrong to kill an individual...

of difficulty taking a strong stand on what is right and wrong. Kilpatrick addressed this issue: if the adults in the childs life ...

things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...

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

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

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

the company as well as its profitability is important to him. Ellis will likely want to go for the deal but the situation does get...

the company as well as its profitability is important to him. Ellis will likely want to go for the deal but the situation does get...

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

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

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

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

in bone marrow transplants, continues to rage on within the medical community. Proponents of umbilical cord blood usage for other...

play the desires of the majority, upon which this nation is primarily based. If the majority of the people, for example, believe t...

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

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

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

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

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