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Should Rich People Help The Poor
599 wordsAs we enter the millennium, the gap between rich and poor has never been wider. While some people have more money than it is possible to spend in a lifetime, no matter how lavishly they might make purchases; others are not able to provide even for their most basic needs. On all the continents of the world, people starve to death for lack of food; freeze death for lack of shelter, die of diseases that could be prevented. The situation raises the issue of whether the affluent people of the world h...
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Cultural Relativism Moral Principles
1,550 wordsIn his article "Cultural relativism and cultural values", Melville Herskovits defines the principle of cultural relativism as "judgements are based on experience, and experience is interpreted by each individual in terms of his own enculturation" (26). This is the basic premise of cultural relativism, that beliefs, values, and morals are all based on one's culture. Therefore, since morality is based on society and different societies have different views of right and wrong, there can be no moral...
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Ayn Rand Moral Principle
1,164 words... as turned down by 12 publishers). For example, in Atlas Shrugged, Rand obscured historical realities to reinforce her argument and once again exaggerated the situation. Thus, the Taggart Railroad of the novel, the central setting, may strike someone with an average knowledge of American history as the kind of thing that never existed. Most people know that the transcontinental railroads were built with federal subsidies and federal land grants, (which is ironic within itself. Rands theory de...
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Respect For Persons Means To An End
1,070 wordsKant and Mills Theories In July of 1994, Paul J. Hill, a former Presbyterian minister and later a pro-life activist, was prosecuted for killing Dr. John Britton, an abortion performing doctor, and James Barrett, a volunteer, outside a clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Prior to this, Hill commented on the murder of Dr. David Gunn, another abortion performing doctor, stating that it was a biblically justified homicide (P. 215). This statement shows how strong Hills beliefs were and leads one to assume...
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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
2,421 wordsThe Joys Of Contriving Literature (Why Ayn The Joys Of Contriving Literature (Why Ayn Rands Theories Dont Hold Water) No thinker, perhaps, has had more influence upon contemporary libertarians than the novelist and non-academic philosopher, Ayn Rand. For that reason alone, she deserves attention; however, many of her arguments have been misunderstood, misrepresented or ignored. As George Smith has commented, ? there has appeared relatively little in the way of competent reflection of Ayn Rand as...
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Moral Principle Feel Good
537 wordsSuppose I had a problem, and I needed to talk to someone about it. Would I select a person who you knew to sometimes be dishonest, or insincere; someone who was sneaky, or untrustworthy, or sometimes stole, or was even involved in illegal activities? Hardly. What kind of help could a person like that provide me that would be of any value? I would think of someone who possessed the quality of integrity. It could be a friend, a teacher, a coach, a minister or even a parent. But it would be someone...
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