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Essays 361 - 390
is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...
the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...
half weeks pay. Sheila leaves a message on Wandas machine saying that she will pick up the dolls that evening, and a check for her...
various formal, stated ethics codes of nursing associations; nurse education programs; health care organizations; and certainly he...
the blog sites of Volpac, a conservative political action committee chaired by Senate majority leader Bill Frist. One of the curr...
combining the areas of reform epistemology, philosophy and psychology, with the intent to prove that intelligent virtue is the tru...
so morality, for Aristotle is defined by mans choices towards ethical virtue (1098a16). In Book II of "Nicomachean Ethics," Ari...
In five pages this report discusses ethical egoism as it relates to the normative ethical theory of Plato. Three sources are cite...
then, where does one go? Which way is correct? Going back to ancient times, Aristotle had a lot to say about virtue. In the Nicoma...
In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...
In seven pages various readings featured in this collective volume consider topics of self respect, self interest, dignity, and ch...
In six pages this paper discusses interactive television's benefits such as distance learning, telemedicine, and videoconferencing...
In five pages this paper discusses what these authors think constitutes a virtuous person as presented in their texts. Three sour...
of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...
(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...
the Declaration of Independence. While two-thirds of mankind suffers undernourishment, our own upper classes revel amidst superfl...
distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...
is to compare it with Webers concept of patrimonialism where he described a system of leadership that is based upon military perso...
the "state on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers ... to a state power that possesses both internal and e...
the way that Russia has adapted in changed there is an underlying pattern which can indicate the reasons for the market reform suc...
Is it possible to have a true democracy in these conditions? The outlook is not promising. In a speech at the University of Calif...
it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...
and perhaps within nations will act as springboards to the transfer of power to the centre in Europe" (Siedentop, 2001; p. 25), su...
apparel policy" ("Court cites landmark student free speech case in finding district unlawfully suspended students for protesting s...
that of Britain. In France, there is the idea that the power is with the people, but in Britain there is a sense that one institut...
later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...
information and communication tools, such as the Internet, and those who cannot" that was given by The Digital Network; which is a...
Chinas "Exports to the U.S. rose 9.9 percent in the first seven months of 2008 from a year earlier after gaining 8.9 percent in th...