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State Of Nature Morally Acceptable
1,880 wordsEthics, July 1999 v 109 i 4 p 739 Justification and Legitimacy ( ). (philosophy of the state) A. John Simmons. Abstract: Different arguments are needed to show that a state is justified and that it is legitimate. Justifying the state is associated with the treatises of 18 th-century philosophers. The Lockean approach to this issue captures features of institutional evaluation that the Kantian approach does not. Standard justifications of the state are offered to those motivated by objections to ...
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Child Is Born Prenatal Testing
1,801 wordsIs it morally right to peer into a mothers womb and select a childs future according to how it is progressing or how healthy it is? Is it right to use the capabilities that science has uncovered to create our children? Or should those decisions and concerns be left for God? According to Kim Painter prenatal testing is about reassurance; couples expect to learn that their babies will be fine. But its also about avoiding the births of disabled children. Many people think that using prenatal geneti...
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Morally Acceptable Morally Correct
1,074 wordsCannibalism, what do you think of it? Is it morally correct? Does the theory of ethical relativism support it or does it knock it down? Throughout this paper I am going to evaluate the pros and cons of ethical relativism for a case concerning cannibalism. An American man by the name of Daniel went to South America, for the reasons of writing a book on it and publishing it in the United States, to study a native tribe and to try to become part of it. While Daniel was studying this tribe they acce...
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Duty And Reason As The Ultimate Principle Kant
1,385 wordsDuty and Reason as the Ultimate Principle: Kant Kant claims that only actions from duty have moral worth. In other words, actions from motives other than duty deserve no positive moral evaluation. I like and agree with Kant's view because I believe that a good will makes a good person. I also believe we have all been put on this earth to do our duty. We should do our duty just for duty alone; we should not be concerned about anything else. I will begin by discussing Kant's distinction between wh...
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Ends And Means Means And Ends End
1,158 wordsIs Hulliung right? Hulliung discusses how people understand Machiavelli and what he thinks of some of Machiavelli's concepts. In the chapter of interpreting Machiavelli, Hulliung argues in the issues of means and ends, idealism Vs realism, political violence and weather Machiavelli is a pagan. His ideas somewhat seem to be convincing. However, the question is, is Hulliung fair in judging Machiavelli? Or is he immoral? Hulliung thinks that there are no differences between ends and means. In other...
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Social Contract Life Threatening
1,298 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The issue of abortion is emotionally loaded and this often makes for poor, not thoroughly thought out arguments. The questions: "Is abortion immoral" and "Is abortion a murder" are often confused. The pregnancy (and the resulting foetus) are discussed in terms normally reserved to natural catastrophes (force majeure, in legal lingo). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer: after al...
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President Of The United States Morally Permissible
2,604 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites In the hallways of the Smithsonian, two moralists are debating the impeachment of the President of the United States of America, Mr. William Jefferson Clinton. One is clearly Anti-Clinton (AC) the other, a Democrat (DC), is not so much for him as he is for the rational and pragmatic application of moral principles. AC (expected): "The President should be impeached." DC (no less expecte...
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Moral Obligation Brain Activity
1,775 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Animal rights is a catchphrase akin to human rights. It involves, however, a few pitfalls. First, animals exist only as a concept. Otherwise, they are cuddly cats, curly dogs, cute monkeys. A rat and a puppy are both animals but our emotional reaction to them is so different that we cannot really lump them together. Moreover: what rights are we talking about? The right to life? The rig...
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Wrong To Kill Morally Wrong
1,216 wordsIn the midst of many different positions on abortion encompassing the world today Don Marquis in his paper Why Abortion Is Immoral, hits sound reasons why he believes that abortion is morally wrong. He starts with an assumption that he believes that everyone will in fact agree with, stating that it is morally wrong to kill us. Marquis explains that the reason that murder is wrong is not because of the effect that will placed on the family and friends of the person that is killed, but because the...
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Watch While Our Families Morally Right To Stand War
661 wordsThe Just War Theory is a set of criteria that are used to judge whether a war is morally justifiable. It was St Augustine in the third century that formulated the Just War theory, and was formalised 10 centuries later by Thomas Aquinas. There are seven criteria by which a war can be judged to be just. Among the rules are Just Cause - there must be a very good reason for going to war, such as protecting your country from invasion. There should be a formal declaration of war by the legal governmen...
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Theory Of Value Greatest Good For The Greatest
1,695 wordsDilemma Presented To Him Exemplifies The Empirical View of Utilitarianism 'One death, and a thousand lives in exchange -- it's simple arithmetic. ' -Raskolnikov Raskolnikov's mathematical evaluation of the moral dilemma presented to him in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment exemplifies the empirical view of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism attempts to distinguish between right and wrong by measuring a decision based on its calculated worth. Raskolnikov appears to employ the fundamentals of utilitar...
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Consequential Ist Utility Maximization
1,722 words... concerned with utility maximization as any good consequential ist, is personally responsible for how he evaluates each particular situation. If, through a mis evaluation of the situation, he performs actions that produce a very bad state of affairs, he cannot say "I was just following orders. " The de ontologist may insist that the rule-of-thumb-utilitarian can always say "oh well, I tried my best, " but the de ontologist who produces bad states of affairs can clearly say the same thing - in...
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Morally Correct One Person
778 wordsMorality. It has been questioned by people, honored by people and revered since the beginning of time. Yet even today not one person can say what is morally right. It is a matter of opinion. It was Dr. Victor Frankenstein's opinion that it was alright to create a monster. Frankenstein's creation needed a companion. Knowing that his first creation was evil should the doctor make a second? With the knowledge at hand, to Dr. Frankenstein, it is not at all morally correct to bring another monster in...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patients
1,485 wordsKathleen M. Suicide Physician-Assisted Suicide Kathleen M. Foley, author of Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide, believes doctors should develop treatments for the physical and psychological problems of dying patients rather than helping them commit suicide. Available data suggests most physicians do not receive training in the care of dying patients. Dying patients experience physical symptoms such as pain, psychological problems such as anxiety and depression and...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patients
1,424 wordsKathleen M. Foley, author of Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide, believes doctors should develop treatments for the physical and psychological problems of dying patients rather than helping them commit suicide. Available data suggests most physicians do not receive training in the care of dying patients. Dying patients experience physical symptoms such as pain, psychological problems such as anxiety and depression and existential distress (described as the experie...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Morally Wrong
763 wordsThe Morality Issue Through Hawthorne, the book The Scarlet Letter is written about love, sin, and most of all morals. Hawthorne creates many different perspectives on characters and their views. His vivid descriptions of the main trio of characters allow the reader to make there own decisions on who is morally right or wrong. Is Hester a victim, or a temptress, or maybe Dimmesdale is in the wrong for falling for the temptress. Chillingworth, who is at first thought to be the victim, but in the e...
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Capital Punishment Death Penalty
1,236 wordsIn the eighteenth century, England would punish by death formica pocketing and petty theft. Ever since the 1650 s colonist could put to death for denying the true God or cursing their parents advocates. Capital Punishment has clashed almost continuously in the forum of public opinion in state legislatures and most recently in courts. In 1972, the case of Furman vs. Georgia reached the supreme court. The court decided that punishment by death did indeed violate the eighth amendment stating that, ...
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Code Of Conduct Political Philosophy
2,162 wordsIs Anarchism The Only Morally Defensible Political Is Anarchism The Only Morally Defensible Political Philosophy? Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 'Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 'The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere 'The ceremony of innocence is drowned; 'W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming. 'The answer to this question will revolve around the definitions of anarchism and morality. It will be shown that, within the criteria laid down, anarchism is the most, if not the on...
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Tom And Daisy Morally Responsible
624 wordsMoral Responsibility in Gatsby Bang! Gatsby's dead! George Wilson shot Gatsby! However, who is morally responsible for killing Gatsby? The obvious answer would be George since he pulled the trigger. However, it is clear, if for no other reason than for the unimportance of George in the book, that others were also partly responsible. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom, Daisy, and George are morally responsible for the death of Gatsby. Tom, because of his tattling on Gatsby, can be m...
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Sense Of Duty Morally And Ethically
1,915 wordsEssay I Relativism: The Tangible Theory Since the beginning of rational thought, philosophers have searched for the true meaning of morality. Many theorists have attempted to answer this question with reasoning, in an attempt to find a universal set of rules, or a way to distinguish right from wrong. Some theorists believe that this question is best answered by a single moral standard, while others debate if there can be a single solution. Cultural Relativism explores the idea that there can be ...
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