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Essays 151 - 180
actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
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...
consciousness" (Sayadaw). These are the normal processes of perception, movement, and consciousness. With this concept Buddha arri...
someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...
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 greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...
that lying is not only necessary in some circumstances, but one may go beyond the few exceptions and see good in the lie. It is ce...
In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
in which genetic information will be used by insurance companies and employers in order to discriminate. It is discrimination that...
in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...
penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself" ...
should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...
He did not believe in intervention unless necessary and in that way, there is a similarity. Mills defense of social liberty, and...
being antithetical to their interests, but rather looked upon government as an instrument for promoting and protecting the interes...
shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...
altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...
The correlation between social and economic power and the perception of gender is something which has been addressed by various hi...
of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...
that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...
action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...
reasons why Mill make this assertion at the close of his argument lie within the work itself. In chapter III, Mill puts worth two ...
line of work, or even work at all. The government does demand allegiance and can draft members of the society if a war thus demand...
the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...