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Responsibility

is not accountable, or technically responsible for something going wrong, they are not otherwise responsible. In essence, under th...

In Favor of Abortion

at the moment of birth, then there is no ethical dilemma with abortion. The ethics of the matter come down to a definition, which...

Aristotle and the Role of Moral Education

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

Moral and Social Education in Book IV of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Emile Or, On Education

the pains he has felt, and that there are others whom he ought to conceive of as able to feel them too" (222). There is a distinc...

My Favorite Author: John Cheever

where Cheever first experienced heartbreak. That heartbreak came over the fractionation of his family that occurred when his fath...

Piaget, Freud, Kohlberg, Bruner

6 years); latency (6 - 11 years); genital (11 to 18 years) (ETR Associates, 2006). Like Piaget, Freud did allow for some flexibili...

Hard Times by Dickens

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

John Proctor in "The Crucible": Moral Dilemma

strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p. 487). She is convinced that she ...

Ethical Decisions - Case Study

their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...

Children: Safer From Online Predators At Home Or At School?

are alerted to any number of events encoded by the instructor. While this serves as a viable means by which to supervise a childs...

The Morality of Frankenstein

because of the gruesome nature of the experiments, he has to be very circumspect about where he lives-another broad hint that he s...

Caring and the Nurse Practitioner

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

Should A Company Undertake Loss Management If They Have Insurance?

In any business there will always be some type of risk. Insurance has been a tool used by individuals and companies for many years...

Abortion: A Moral Issue

it is murder and thus morally wrong. Those who are against abortion may often base their standing on religion, saying that God d...

Moral Analysis & Stance

through experiments with mice; they specifically worked to correct the gene that prevents the growth of tumors (Aldhous, 2006). Sc...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

Abraham Lincoln - Personality Development

hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...

The Child As A Moral Philosopher By Kohlberg

children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...

Catholic/Jewish Dialogue & Educational Practice

diversity of educational reforms." This is an extremely large topic, as educational literature indicates that reform is needed in ...

"SWALLOWS OF KABUL" AND "DAWN": A RELIGIOUS COMPARISON

reign of the Taliban. "The Afghan countryside is nothing but battlefields, expanses of sand and cemeteries," the author writes in ...

"Option Four" By Ramesh Ponnuru: Review

plays a role in mandating its recognition as a union, will it automatically segue into an issue of rights that have been heretofor...

Thomas Nagel/”Moral Luck”

that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...

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...

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...

Journalism: First Amendment And Freedom Of Speech

was able to see harmful speech as a bridge between issue and resolution by applying the hateful commentary as a social awaken, cla...

The Octomom Has Done Nothing Immoral

sympathy when they cannot have children on their own and so in vitro is supported. Another issue goes to money. Many people believ...

Views on Abortion

or not having the right to life" (Marquis 241). Therefore, Marquis, more or less, examines what it is that makes killing any human...

U.S. Foreign Policy, Just War Theory, and the Persian Gulf War

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

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...