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  • Abortion- Is It a Moral or an Immoral Choice?

    Abortion- Is It a Moral or an Immoral Choice?

    The title of the first article is “Abortion is a Moral Choice” by Henry Morgentaler. This article upholds women’s rights to abortion in the belief that it reduces the number of unwanted children and also reduces the number of adult criminals that suffer from childhood neglect or parental abuse. The title of the second article is “Abortion is Immoral” by John Paul II. This article objects abortion in the belief that it is a crime

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Jon
  • An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

    An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

    What is a moral? This is a question that has plagued philosophers for many years. Is it possible to have a set of universal morals? There are many questions that surround the mystery of morals. They seem to drive our every action. We base our decisions on what is right and what is wrong. But what is it that actually determines what is right and what is wrong? Is it our sense of reason? Is

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Moral Implications of Cloning

    The Moral Implications of Cloning

    Outside the lab where the cloning had actually taken place, most of us thought it could never happen. Oh we would say that perhaps at some point in the distant future, cloning might become feasible through the use of sophisticated biotechnologies far beyond those available to us now. But what we really believed, deep in our hearts, was that this one biological feat we could never master. Dr. Lee M. Silver, 1997. On February 23,

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Anna
  • Kant’s Formalism Theory

    Kant’s Formalism Theory

    Kant's Formalism Theory The theories of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, have had an impact on the formulation and shaping of ethics today. Immanuel Kant graced this earth from 1724 to 1804. During his eighty year life time, he formulated many interesting ideas regarding ethical conduct and motivation. Kant is strictly a non-consequentialist philosopher, which means that he believes that a person's choices should have nothing to do with the desired outcome, but instead mankind

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Macbeth Moral Story

    Macbeth Moral Story

    Macbeth is a play about a Scottish man Macbeth who gives in to temptation and greed. He starts out being the Scottish hero with no real major problems in his life. It all goes wrong for Macbeth when he encounters three witches that prophesise that he is going to be king. He tells his wife and she pressures him into murdering the king so that he can become king. Macbeth cannot decide whether he

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Victor
  • Famine, Affluence and Morality

    Famine, Affluence and Morality

    Peter Singer's article, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, presents a strong view on the moral values which people all around the world today are giving to the global famine taking place these days. Singer tries to influence who ever reads this article to take action and provide relief for the increased suffering going on due to famine. In his article, he incorporates arguments to illustrate the moral importance that should be given to the suffering of

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Max
  • The Moral Life of a Teacher

    The Moral Life of a Teacher

    The Moral Life of a Teacher Considered Response In the context of professional ethics, morals refer to so much more than lessons learned from fairy tales. Greene provides that a moral refers to a varied selection of values, judgments of right and wrong, good and bad as well as relational judgments concerning peoples’ actions (Greene, 1973). Many professionals, including teachers, are often held to a high standard of morality. Morals are measured through many mediums;

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Laws Vs. Morals in Huck Finn

    Laws Vs. Morals in Huck Finn

    "What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right." Whether he knows it or not, the character Huck Finn is a perfect example of the truth in this quote. His struggle between knowing in his mind and what is legal, but feeling in his heart what is moral was predominant throughout the novel. Today, we'll examine three examples of situations when Huck had to decide for himself whether to

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Moral Enigma of the September 19 Popular Coup in Thailand

    The Moral Enigma of the September 19 Popular Coup in Thailand

    The moral enigma of the September 19 popular coup in Thailand. Bangkok, September 25, 2006 The September 19, 2006 (9/19) coup d’etat in Thailand is a great puzzle for many. It is difficult to understand this coup not so much in terms of why it has happened, but its popularity. There were reports of people giving flowers and cold drinks to soldiers on the streets. In Chiangmai, kids would not stop bothering their teachers until

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Vika
  • Sexual Morality - Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex? a Defense of Homsexuality

    Sexual Morality - Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex? a Defense of Homsexuality

    Sexual Morality Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex? A Defense of Homsexuality 1. Homosexual sex is unnatural. I don't recall anywhere in the Bible where God said it was okay for two males to conjoin in marriage or any other "activities." In fact in the book of Genesis, God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah by brimstone and fire for such homosexuality. I do not believe unnatural means that something is disgusting; something can be unnatural

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Top
  • John Donne as a Metaphysical Poet

    John Donne as a Metaphysical Poet

    John Donne as a metaphysical poet John Donne was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets and a churchman famous for his spellbinding sermons. His poetry is noted for its ingenious fusion of wit and seriousness and represents a shift from classical models toward a more personal style. Donne's poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects. He wrote cynical verse about inconstancy (for example, Go and catch a falling star and

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Objective Basis of Morality Challenged

    The Objective Basis of Morality Challenged

    The Objective Basis of Morality Challenged The origins of morality and what is defined as "good" or "bad", "unethical" or "moral" can easily boggle the mind. It is a topic that can be debated almost endlessly. There are many factors that must be taken into consideration to provide valid philosophies; yet there will still always be debatable elements. Two concepts of morality that are in direct opposition of each other are moral objectivism and moral

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    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Jeans Therapy - Levi's Factory Workers Are Assigned to Teams, and Morale Takes a Hit.

    Jeans Therapy - Levi's Factory Workers Are Assigned to Teams, and Morale Takes a Hit.

    1. What went wrong with Levi’s move to teams in their plants? Levi’s was too late in attending global competition. To catch the market, they had to drastically redesign their strategy. But the major problem of Levi’s was doing nothing to understand the human side of management change. Levi’s did not align the company’s culture, values, people, and behaviors to encourage the desired outcome. Levi’s did not capture value; responsible for designing, executing, and living

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    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Moral and Supernatural Value of Human Activity

    The Moral and Supernatural Value of Human Activity

    Index 1. Introduction to Moral Activity 3 2. The Moral Value of Human Activity 6 3. The Supernatural Value of Human Activity 11 4. Bibliography 12 1 Introduction to Moral Activity Man must strive for his end through his own acts. It is in this strenuous use of all the talents received from God that life is affirmed and developed. It is clear then how important and fundamental is the concept of human activity, considered

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Why Should We Be Moral?

    Why Should We Be Moral?

    WHY SHOULD WE BE MORAL??? Being moral is a choice free from both internal and external factors. Unless we have some convincing reasons for being moral, there is no point in enquiring what is morally good and what is not. This question concerns reasons than causes. Also one must realize that being moral involves self denial. For example a moral person must not take BRIBE, but another person who is not moral and takes bribes

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Jon
  • Morality: An Essential to Life

    Morality: An Essential to Life

    Morality: An essential to life A Russian born American science-fiction writer and biochemist once quoted, "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." This statement generates a series of controversial questions. What is right? How do morals affect people and society in which we live? Does everyone have specific morals by which they try to live their life? How does someone realize what their morals are? What are morals?

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Kant

    Kant

    http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~curd/110WK11.html Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) H. J. Paton: “In spite of its horrifying title Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals is one of the small books which are truly great: it has exercised on human thought an influence almost ludicrously disproportionate to its size.” Morality is a priori For Kant, universality and necessity are the hallmarks of the a priori. Morality commands universally (all rational beings, not just

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Edward
  • Morally Responsible for Hoeman’s Death

    Morally Responsible for Hoeman’s Death

    Hubris: (as defined by the Greeks) “excessive pride or arrogance, wanton (or merciless) violence.” In the Greek drama Antigone it is clear that Creon is morally responsible for the death of his son, Haemon. However, no matter what your opinion is at this point it does not matter, because just like every single character in Antigone, you too, by the end, will be in agreement with them and myself in knowing that Antigone was

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Moral Education of Children

    Moral Education of Children

    Moral education has always been an issue in schools. Although the methodology and the content have changed over the past years, ways to implement and bring these theories into the classroom and internalize them within children is still one of the important research topics. Moral education is most successful when it is passive and indirect. We all know that our best and deepest moments of learning were when we actually didn’t know that we are

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • Kant’s Dialectic

    Kant’s Dialectic

    The discussion of Kant's metaphysics and epistemology so far (including the Analytic of Principles)has been confined primarily to the section of the Critique of Pure Reason that Kant calls the Transcendental Analytic. The purpose of the Analytic, we are told, is "the rarely attempted dissection of the power of the understanding itself." (A 65/B 90). Kant's project has been to develop the full argument for his theory about the mind's contribution to knowledge of the

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Metaphysical Poetry - the Flea and the Sunne Rising - Binary Oppositions

    Metaphysical Poetry - the Flea and the Sunne Rising - Binary Oppositions

    Metaphysical poets use startling juxtapositions in their poetry to create a greater significance in their arguments and intended meanings throughout the poem. John Donne is said to be the unsurpassed metaphysical poet, metaphysical poetry being poetry relating to a group of 17-century English poets whose verse is typified by an intellectually arduous style, admitting extended metaphors and comparing very disparate things. In 17th century England new discoveries were being made and social customs such as

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Atomic Bomb Morality

    Atomic Bomb Morality

    The development of the atomic bomb and chemical warfare forever changed the way people saw the world. It was a landmark in time for which there was no turning back. The constant balancing of the nuclear super powers kept the whole of humankind on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Fear of nuclear winter and the uncertainty of radiation created its own form of a cultural epidemic in the United States. During these tense times in

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Affirmative on Resolved: The Actions of Corporations Ought to Be Held to The Same Moral Standard as The Actions of Individuals.

    Affirmative on Resolved: The Actions of Corporations Ought to Be Held to The Same Moral Standard as The Actions of Individuals.

    Noble motives cannot justify a policy that consistently fails to deliver what it promises or that creates greater long-term problems than it solves Walter A. McDougall Currently it is to easy for corporations to find loopholes in corporate laws that are Set in place to try and protect people and other companys from the immoral actions of these corporations Solution! Affirm now before we continue I must provide the following resolution all analysis of this

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Teens’ Decreasing Morality

    Teens’ Decreasing Morality

    Nowadays everything is changing and developing in an incredible speed.More and more scientific achievements are made. More and more modern technologies are used,…That certainly affects our life so much. The more modern technologies are, the more easily people get information all over the world. However, people, especially the teens they tend to make friends with bad information rather than good and useful ones. That leads to the fact that there are more teens that are

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Death Penalty: Morally Defensible?

    The Death Penalty: Morally Defensible?

    The Death Penalty: Morally Defensible? The death penalty has faced much opposition as of late. Can the death penalty possibly be a morally acceptable punishment? A popular bumper sticker says, "We kill people to show people that killing people is wrong." The slogan is short, simple, and to the point. But is there really such irony in capital punishment as the slogan implies? WORD GAMES First of all, the slogan misses an important point. The

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike

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