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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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Undefined And Unintelligible Feelings Time Space And Variety Transcendentalists
1,178 words... cars certain vestiges of New England Puritanism, and that in their reaction against the "pale negations" of Unitarianism, they tapped into the grittier pietistic side of Calvinism in which New England culture had been steeped. The Calvinists, after all, conceived of their religion in part as man's quest to discover his place in the divine scheme and the possibility of spiritual regeneration, and though their view of humanity was pessimistic to a high degree, their pietism could give rise to ...
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Machiavellian Ethical Machiavellian Ethics Standards
785 wordsIn your class discussions, we learned the basic aspects of Kantian and Machiavellian Ethical standards. I found that it is fairly easy to establish a basic attitude on the subject, depending on how a specific person handles the situations in their life. I chose my preferred ethical standard rather quickly. I did, however, decide to further research the subject and see if I was missing any information. It didnt take very much research to find a great deal of writing on the subject. In a short tim...
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Harper Amp Row Protestant Ethic
1,336 words... This is a kind of vicious circle initiated by the Human resources management, which is the head office of the manipulation and control through pressures and rewards policies. There is no space for the full personal initiative, the employees become only obeying orders Business values may be ethically correct; nevertheless, members of organization tend to do not care anymore about the ethical dilemmas because business values and culture had been integrated. Employees may think that an act is r...
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Code Of Ethics Categorical Imperative
569 wordsKant escapes the limitations of the apparent world by viewing it through a strictly rational perspective; Neitzsche also achieves this through the will to power of his original code of ethics. Kantian philosophy escapes the apparent world through reason, void of any influence of thought of desires, inclinations and past experiences, called a priori reasoning. One who is capable of using a priori reasoning Kant calls a rational agent. Kantian ethics dictates that one ought to use a priori reasoni...
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Morality In Queen Vs Dudley And Stephens
1,121 words1. In the case of Queen vs. Dudley and Stephens, was the killing of the cabin boy, Richard Parker, morally wrong? Relate your answer to one or more of the following ethical theories: Aristotelian ethics, Hobbesian ethics, Utilitarianism, or Kantian ethics. Be sure to give a summary of the main points of the theory, as well as drawing out its implications for the case. In the case of Dudley and Stephens, the murder of Richard Parker cannot be justified as being morally permissible. Our society fu...
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Greatest Happiness Principle Decision Making Process
1,364 wordsHappiness: In one word, this concept exemplifies the American dream. People go to any means by which to obtain the many varied materials and issues that induce pleasures in each individual, and intrinsically, this emotion remains the ultimate goal, John Stuart Mill, a nineteenth century philosopher, correctly advocated the pursuit of happiness, and maintained the concept that above all other values, pleasure existed as the final destination, Mill's hedonistic views correctly and rationally ident...
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Lie No Matter Inductive Generalization Victim
666 wordsKant believed that morality is a matter of following absolute rules that admit no exceptions, that must be followed come what may. He uses the example that a person should never lie no matter what the circumstances. Kantian ethics, thus, tends to focus ones attention on the less relevant aspect of lying: the deception rather than the betrayal. Kant believes that his moral theory prohibits lying under all possible circumstances, even those where there is a murderer at the door wondering if the in...
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Slave Morality Judeo Christian
662 wordsEthics The ethics is often referred to as the branch of philosophy related to the standards by which human actions can be perceived right or wrong and is related to the nature of ultimate value. According to Aristotle, ethics was examined as a sphere distinct from other theoretical sciences. Aristotle claimed that the methodology of the ethics should match good action. He agreed with Plato's and Socrates point of view that the virtues should be central to a well-lived life. In his Nicomachea n E...
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Telling The Truth Categorical Imperative
1,543 wordsKant: the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative Kantian philosophy outlines the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative as a method for determining morality of actions. This formula is a two part test. First, one creates a maxim and considers whether the maxim could be a universal law for all rational beings. Second, one determines whether rational beings would will it to be a universal law. Once it is clear that the maxim passes both prongs of the test, there are n...
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Fossil Fuels Environmental Concerns
1,852 wordsIntroduction Traditionally, Western views of environment ethics has been unclear and for the most part unnecessary. We used earths resources without thinking about consequence. This nonchalant use aided in the Wests ability to influence the world through technological advances. In the past, limited travel and slow communication systems had limited our view to a local one. If pollution or to much urbanization occurred the solution was to move. Industrialization has changed things. With science ad...
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Greatest Happiness Principle Decision Making Process
1,365 wordsHappiness Happiness: In one word, this concept exemplifies the American dream. People go to any means by which to obtain the many varied materials and issues that induce pleasures in each individual, and intrinsically, this emotion remains the ultimate goal, John Stuart Mill, a nineteenth century philosopher, correctly advocated the pursuit of happiness, and maintained the concept that above all other values, pleasure existed as the final destination, Mills hedonistic views correctly and rationa...
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Quot Quot Vita Nuova
5,136 words" Mantis, " like so much of Zukofsky's work, both reflects his tuition in the " school of Pound" and demonstrates the extent to which he brings a self-consciousness beyond Pounds to that tradition. Like Pounds " Sestina: Altaforte, " " Mantis" is a sestina, a seven-stanza poem in a form invented by Dantes " million faber, " the Troubadour Arnaut Daniel. The requirements of the form are clearly specified and rigorously bind the poet. There is no c...
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Categorical Imperative Rational Beings
1,766 wordsWhat makes an action moral? Is it the action itself or its consequences? These are questions that are not new to me, I have been asking myself that ever since I thought I knew what good is. Two separate views have been brought to my attention lately, two different philosophies, the Kantian philosophy, and the Utilitarian point of view. And the only way I could think of to decide which of the two I agree with, is to integrate each of them into an example, a situation, and see how they hold out. T...
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Greatest Happiness Principle Decision Making Process
1,233 wordsHappinesshappiness: In one Untitled Happinesshappiness: In one word, this concept exemplifies the American dream. People go to any means by which to obtain the many varied materials and issues that induce pleasures in each individual, and intrinsically, this emotion remains the ultimate goal, John Stuart Mill, a nineteenth century philosopher, correctly advocated the pursuit of happiness, and maintained the concept that above all other values, pleasure existed as the final destination, Mills hed...
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Quot I Quot Categorical Imperative
1,553 wordsKant: the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative Kantian philosophy outlines the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative as a method for determining morality of actions. This formula is a two part test. First, one creates a maxim and considers whether the maxim could be a universal law for all rational beings. Second, one determines whether rational beings would will it to be a universal law. Once it is clear that the maxim passes both prongs of the test, there are n...
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Respect For Persons Courses Of Action
719 wordsConnie Science s moral dilemma of whether or not to break government ethics laws regarding the acceptance of lobbyist s gifts has come to its climax where she must choose if she will jump on the bandwagon or not. Ms. Science could use a number of methods to come to a logical and morally sound conclusion. Some of these methods include Kantian Ethics and Act Utilitarianism. Kantian Ethics is a de ontological theory (which emphasize doing one s duty without regard for the consequences) developed by...
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Soft Core Pornography Morally Acceptable
3,267 wordsWhen asked off the bat whether pornography is morally acceptable, I instinctively responded with a stern No It is such a taboo subject that I not only wanted to stay away from it, but I also wanted to answer the way everybody else would answer. After long researching and thorough discussions with my group, I have not only found more reasons why pornography is bad, but also many reasons why it is good. I was surprised as to find good reasons as to why pornography might be good, but I did. With th...
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