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Kant Categorical Imperative Immanuel Kant
1,055 wordsThey " re not blind. They don't have hair on their palms. Even so, they still masturbate. Of all the topics that continually find themselves under attack, none seems to be restricted solely to quiet, taboo conversations as often as masturbation. For countless generations, this subject has been put down, looked down on, and kept behind closed doors, and no one is really sure why. "It's immoral", or "its dirty" are the best anyone has come up with. The latter is a matter of personal opinion, and d...
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John Stuart Mill Niccolo Machiavelli
1,921 wordsAsbestos is a mineral fiber that has many uses. It can still be found in many types of building materials and insulation products, as well as in chemical filters and brake linings. The actual fiber is so small that it can only be positively identified with a special type of microscope. Unfortunately, it has been determined that breathing high levels of asbestos can lead to lung cancer, a chronic lung inflammation called asbestosis, or a cancer of the chest lining called mesothelioma. Attacks on ...
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Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide
5,440 words... (p. 17) "Elderly and disabled patients are often invited by our achievement-oriented society to see themselves as useless burdens on younger, more vital generations. In this climate, simply offering the option of "self-deliverance" shifts a burden of proof, so that helpless patients must ask themselves why they are not availing themselves of it. This situation might lead some to "voluntarily" decide to end a life that is perceived as worthless. " The ever increasing costs of health care, esp...
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Ethical Egoism Versus Virtue Ethics
554 wordsTheories concern ideas of how things are or how things ought to be. Ethical theories are concerned with what morally ought to be the case. There are three types of general ethical theories: Consequentialism, Deontology, and Human Nature Ethics. Consequentialism is mainly concerned with bringing about proper ends of acting. Its descriptive claim is that every action seeks a particular end. Deontology concentrates on moral duty, i. e. , the general principles that ought to guide our actions. Moreo...
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Consequential Ist Categorical Imperative
1,698 wordsEthics, broadly conceived, is concerned with questions about value, how we should live, and what we should do. Normative ethics is concerned with developing general theories in response to these kinds of questions. Consequentialist's, contract arians, virtue ethicist's, Kantians, and still others all develop different theories. But these theorists understand the subject matter itself differently, stress different questions, and offer different answers. These differences themselves then become th...
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Sense Of Duty Consequential Ist
1,681 wordsDefending Duty Ethics Every society and culture has different ways of interpreting and defining ethics development, understanding, and application by the way their own culture or society norms. According to the Websters Dictionary ethics is defined as the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation. A society's culture consists of whatever it is one has to know or believes in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members. The rituals, customs, ethics ...
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State Of Nature Psychological Egoist
1,083 wordsSurpassing the Obvious: Analysis of the Writings of Thomas Hobbes and J. J. C. Smart A term paper contrived is only as good as the sources from which it is assembled. It is from these reservoirs of knowledge that the bulk of a paper is developed. That is why it is absolutely imperative that the qualities of these sources are immaculate and relevant to the subject matter. Given my subject matter, ethical obligations and violence, it is critical to note and record the viewpoint of different philos...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Passive Euthanasia
10,265 wordsI. Introduction In a 1988 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, an article titled Its Over Debbie describes how an anonymous doctor administers a fatal dose of morphine to a woman dying of ovarian cancer (Anonymous, 1988). In a 1989 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, ten doctors associated with the nations leading hospitals and medical schools declare their belief that it is not immoral for a physician to assist in the rational suicide of a terminally ill person (W...
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