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God's Existence and Morality

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

Morality and the Law

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

Overview of Learning

From this beginning, other theories involved that explain social behavior in terms of learning theory. According to social-learnin...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

U.S. War With Iraq and Its Justifications

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

Morality of Stem Cell Research

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

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Morality Enforcement and the Government's Role

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

Kate Chopin and James Joyce

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

Morality and Whether Or Not It Can Exist Without God

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

Mother and Daughter Relationships in Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...

Argumentative Paper on Morality and Relativism

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

Government Should Not Legislate Morality

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

Morality Tale Vathek by William Beckford

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

Nietzsche's The Collapse of Western Metaphysics in the Areas of Reason, Morality, and Religion and Underground Man of Fyodor Dostoevsky

understandable given the conditions of the time. He opposed the rigid moral constraints of the time inflicted by the ruling bourg...

Man's Nature According to Thomas Hobbes and William Golding

the adult world of constraints into an exciting world of fun in the sun, the children come up against the usual banes of social ex...

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the Elements of Fairy Tale

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

C.S. Lewis and Catholic Morality Instruction

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

Autobiography of Oladauh Equiano

own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

'Theory of Moral Sentiment' by Adam Smith

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

Four Films and Their Portrayal of Crime and Judicial Procedures

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

Abortion from the Christian Perspective

(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

"Letter from the Birmingham City Jail," and Martin Luther KIng's Concepts of Just, Unjust, and Morality

or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...

An analysis of Clarissa's speech in Pope's Rape of the Lock

lock of her hair, the background to the event imbues it with a completely disproportionate quality of the melodramatic. Clarissa, ...

The Caylee Anthony Case

that was filed did not meet the criteria to dismiss such heinous a charge ("Lawyers Request To Dismiss Moms Charges Denied" ). The...

God, Man, and Morality in "Frankenstein"

as Victor envisioned but a hideous creature. If God created man in his own image then what does that say about Victors true nature...

Paternity Testing - A Multidimensional Overview

a paternity test happening simply by blind chance is as low as .0001%. For this reason, paternity tests are considered scientifica...